After seeing Uranus last night for the first time and commenting on Facebook that I had now seen them all I was going to update with what a fraud I am since I have not yet seen Earth...
This irony commented on before (1st occurring to me as I looked at a holiday photo from the side of Ben Macdui mountain) that to see the here we have to be over there, is broadly explained by the SRH that we cannot have "self" knowledge.
I now totally concede to Hofstadters way of thinking. The world is fractal in nature infinitely twisting in through itself. What we think is here is really only visible to us when we are there. What is there is only visible because we are here: to understand what is There, we HAVE to be Here! There and Here are the essential poles of the mirror. M.C.Escher above has to paint a glass sphere in his hand to show himself what he looks like. The only other way is to have someone else paint him. It is a head-over-heels world. (I am writing bitty lines here to rapidly try to catch the general point). It is not a matter of finding a fixed "reality" or series of material building blocks but rather as Hofstadter argues the folding of the large scale into the small scale. What we look into become what we look at; what we look at becomes what we look into. Put more physically it is as though the doors that we pass through during our investigations becomes the things we are investigating and what we were investigating inside those rooms becomes the building where our science is done.
This kaleidoscopic world is all brought about because of the deep contradiction that "objective self" would bring about.
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