OIA'I'O
the longer i live
“Luminous.” You correct easily. “And yes, it is a bit like light. If you know something and you know that you know it, it is like you’re shining light on that bit of knowledge. The regress part is that if you know you know something, then presumably you know that you know that. And you can know that you know that, and on and on.” Now, you are properly smiling, and it transforms your face into something beautiful. Something that doesn’t belong to someone so cold and hard that likes sitting in damp places. But what can you say? This is your favourite regress.
”Oh!” Understanding what he means now, you pause to consider it. “That is actually a very interesting way of putting it. On the one hand, with simple concepts there are fewer variables and thus fewer ways of being wrong. However math is actually quite complicated. We just summarize all the background bits with words like “two” .” So maybe you don’t actually agree. But you like that he was clever enough to have come up with something like it.
“I think probably the latter one. It probably isn’t something I”m doing consciously. In fact, if I”m still an acorn, that means I’m not very developed at all. If this is a dream, it probably isn’t very sophisticated, even though it seems to us like it is.”
”Oh!” Understanding what he means now, you pause to consider it. “That is actually a very interesting way of putting it. On the one hand, with simple concepts there are fewer variables and thus fewer ways of being wrong. However math is actually quite complicated. We just summarize all the background bits with words like “two” .” So maybe you don’t actually agree. But you like that he was clever enough to have come up with something like it.
“I think probably the latter one. It probably isn’t something I”m doing consciously. In fact, if I”m still an acorn, that means I’m not very developed at all. If this is a dream, it probably isn’t very sophisticated, even though it seems to us like it is.”
the longer it feels
