Showing posts with label paradoxes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label paradoxes. Show all posts

Friday, December 25, 2009

Drawing Hands

Drawing Hands,
lithograph by M. C. Escher, 1948


Food for thought
  • The chicken and egg paradox
  • The elusive threshold between the holistic and reductionist paradigms w.r.t consciousness.
  • Self-referential loops such as "Reread from five words back."
  • Generally: Strange loops
  • (Based on "Tomorrow") Transcendence as an impossible to perceive, self-manifesting and self-fulfilling external imprint to our reality.
  • (Based on "Tomorrow") Overstepping the boundaries of what could be understood as a definition of the paradoxical.


M. C. Escher raises a perfectly valid point.



"If the whole world was to be a single sentence and you were to seek infinite wisdom, what would you yearn? A dictionary? A grammar? Or the ones who spoke its language? "
Mr. Tortoise