[Platt]
A mistake perennially repeated by intellectuals who inhabit the SOL.
One can only know the value truth of the statement "All descriptions
of reality are contained within the reality they describe" by
stepping outside of SOL concepts into the realm of preconceptual
knowing, i.e., DQ.
[Arlo]
See, right there reveals your trappedness in SOL. You can't "step
outside", that's the SOM mistake. All you can do is deal with the
paradox and recursion from within, best stated by "All this is an
analogy, including this statement", understood by Zen masters and
great philosophers like Pirsig.
Every time you try to "step outside" you simply create another
"realm" from which you then have to "step outside" to see. How could
you know the value of what you call "preconcpetual knowing" except
from yet another "step outside"?
You continue to say "the eye cannot see itself", but your solution is
to provide another eye that sees that eye. The problem is, what sees
*that* eye? You need another eye to see that one. Then that one. Then
the next one. And so on.
The solution to "the eye cannot see itself" is revealed in Magritte's
The False Mirror, what Hofstadter calls a "strange loop", a inherent
paradox that we have no choice but to point to with analogies and move on.
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