Part 4' The Fly and the Fly Bottle Jim DeLeo

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Part 4. The Fly and the Fly BottleJim DeLeo
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Fly trap made from a jar and a paper funnel.
Bait with cider vinegar or slice of banana.
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View from Inside the Fly Bottle
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View from Inside the Fly Bottle
That hole appears more confining and dangerous
than where I am now.
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View from Inside the Fly Bottle
What is your aim in philosophy? -To show the
fly the way out of the fly bottle?
Ludwig Wittgenstein Philosophical
Investigations I, p.309
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• The only solution to the flys dilemma is an
  unlikely and threatening one.
• How do we find our way out of the fly-bottle of
  an ill-fitting reality construction?
• How can we free ourselves if all of the solutions
  lead to more of the same?
• Enantiodramitic fatality seems to ordain that the
  available solutions make worse what they are
  meant to improve?

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Hi. Im Carl Gustav Jung and I just wanted to
let you know that enantiodromia is a concept
that I introduced. It means the superabundance
of any force inevitably produces its opposite. It
is equivalent to the principle of equilibrium in
the natural world, in that any extreme is opposed
by the system in order to restore balance. I
used it particularly to refer to the unconscious
acting against the wishes of the conscious mind.
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But Carl, remember me? Im Heidegger and my
dialectic which describes how the thesis and
antithesis are resolved in the synthesis came
first and goes deeper than your trivial model.
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• Classic trap Ordering the world into dichotomous
  true/false sets.
• Epimenides, a Cretan said All Cretans are
  liars.
• Derails Aristotelian and sloppy everyday logic.
• Self-reflexivity (self-reference) is the issue
  here.
• Bertrand Russell dismissed such constructions.

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• Russell and Alfred North Whitehead declared
  self-referential propositions to be illegitimate.
• Paradox occurs in math, science, and
  schizophrenia.
• It is a warning light indicating that a
  construction no longer fits.
• It may suggest a new and better fitting
  construction (e.g. fuzzy logic where things dont
  have to be A or A but can be spoken of as having
  a degree of membership in A.)

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Part 4.

• 1. Can an Inquiry into the Foundations of
  Mathematics
• Tell Us Anything Interesting about Mind
• Written by Gabriel Stolzenberg
• Reviewed by Gary Berg-Cross
• even mathematicians get trapped inside the fly
  bottle of dualistic thinking
• 2. The Creative Circle Sketches on the Natural
• History of Circularity
• Written by Francisco Varela
• Reviewed by Joyce Johnson
• synthesis of all themes in the book cell
  reproduction, logical paradoxes, self-referential
  mechanisms of our perceptions of the world and
  the central concept of autonomy that stands
  beyond the true-false oscillation of paradox.