Russian Dolls, Within Russian Dolls

Which is what drives us to the consideration that everything is involved with everything else all the time — interconnection on steroids — a universe composed of relationships within relationships, as far as the thing itself is capable of imagining.

This may be evaluated using the model of a Chinese room within a Chinese room, and so on and so on, until all Chinese rooms become interpolated in some infinite loop of Chinese rooms.

We must assume that even the Riemann conjecture may describe only probabilities. No matter how well a mental model serves, it is only the set of keys toward unlocking the truth.

Isn't it pretty to think so.

You must have felt this too: the almost frightening simplicity and wholeness of the relationships which nature suddenly spreads out before us and for which none of us was in the least prepared.

Either this is madness, or it is Hell. — It is neither, calmly replied the voice of the Sphere; it is Knowledge; it is Three Dimensions: open your eye once again and try to look steadily.

The games played by the establishmentarians will, for forever, and for a few days beyond forever, seek to explain the actual thing back to itself in an infinite game of interpolated interpolations.

There is only one sovereign author, and that sovereign author may only be the thing itself.

Nothing, and no one, seeking to define the thing itself, will be successful, as anything used will simply be abstractions which attempt to reduce the thing itself — that which is, by definition, irreducible.