Platt, Let me take you to my happy place.
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 6:06 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey John C, > > > Thinking about thinking is just the beginning of a limitless trip to > infinity > and beyond. In reading your post I started thinking about thinking about > thinking. And as I write this I'm thinking about the statement "thinking > about thinking about thinking." It just keeps expanding ad infinitum, > spilling out of the intellectual level into an abyss of vacuity. > > Not a happy place to be. > > Platt He didn't stick around long enough to remember his name, but he played a mean accordion and said one thing that stuck with me concerning how many mirrors you need for self-reflection. Do you remember the answer? I do. It's "just enough". Royce alludes to this in his theory of interpretation: "Interpetation is that form of cognition involved in the knowledge of mind. When a man clarifies his own interests and meanings and acquires knowledge of his self, he is interpreting. Whereas perception and conception are dyadic relations--of perceiver to immediate datum and conceiver to abstract universal--interpretation is triadic even in its elementary exemplification." All interpretations are capable of infinite regress, just as all phenomena are capable of infinite hypothesis. So where do you stop? When you've got enough. Think of 1.9999999999. When do I give you enough "9"s to make you see "two"? Thus Royce's theory of interpretation, combined with Pirsig's insight into "peace of mind" provide everything one needs, I'd say, to metaphysically deal with Reality. And if I'm wrong, don't tell me. I have peace of mind and doubting my explanation would just ruin it. John Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
