[SA] I read what you posted and quoted, and I didn't see an outright definition of Escherian landscape?
[Arlo] I'm sorry, in the spirit of Escher I give you this. Escherian landscape. n. 'e-sh&r-E-&n 'lan(d)-"skAp, 1. possessing the Qualities of an Escherian landscape. [SA] Is the world about defining? Does the world happen to be just reasoning? What is this reasoning that I mention? Not in the kind of reasoning, but in reasoning itself. Isn't that just one way in which we experience? One may experience reasoning, but we also walk in the snow. Why get stuck in thinking life is about reasoning, when we could just sit or drink tea, too? [Arlo] Of course the world is not about "defining". All I am saying is that (1) when we do define, or intellectualize, we do so with symbols, (2) when our symbol system becomes sufficiently complex to allow "intellection about intellection", or self-reference; paradox, recursion and "strange loops" are an unavoidable aspect of that attempt. "Mu" is a recognition of any "essential incompleteness" any formalization of intellect will have (and is another cross-over point between Pirsig and Hofstadter). Koans, by their very nature, attempt to point at this "essential incompleteness", as (I would argue) does "art". 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.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
