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« In Bed With Logos »

"Each living being, no matter how simple, has a set of innate goals embedded in it, thanks to the feedback loops that evolved over time and that characterize its species," writes Douglas Hofstadter (in "I Am a Strange Loop").

Describing the indescribable is one of our (human) embedded goals.

Meaning-making is on an infinite feedback loop of describing "this" with "that."

We are in bed with the Word (Logos, Meaning), forever asleep amidst our abstractions, forever dreaming a dream of reality.