"A certain artist, having escaped from the lunatic asylum in which,
rightly or wrongly, he had be confined, purchased the materials of his
craft and set to work to make a complete picture of the universe."
...
"The interpretation of this parable is sufficiently obvious. The artist
is trying to describe in his picture a creature equipped with all the
knowledge which he himself possesses, symbolizing that knowledge by the
picture which the pictured creature would draw. And it becomes
abundantly evident that the knowledge thus pictured must always be less
the than the knowledge employed in making the picture. In other words,
the mind which any human science can describe can never be an adequate
representation of the mind which can make that science. And the process
of correcting that inadequacy must follow the serial steps of an
infinite regress."
https://scienceforartists.wordpress.com/2011/09/20/artist-and-picture-by-j-w-dunne/
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