[tacticalogic]

The "instinct" for simplicity and beauty would seem to me to be irreducible to materialist terms. Thus I "hit the wall" of the same problem that keeps the design theorists up at night.

"Hitting a wall" seems an ironically materialist matephor to be using :).

[betty boop]

"Hitting a wall" seems an ironically materialist matephor to be using :).

So lovely of you to notice!

But of course, I am not speaking "physically," but metaphorically.... As even you seem to acknowledge, but don't seem to draw any insight from this perplexing situation....