"Is Enough Really Enough?" -Draft 1A

Is Enough Really Enough?

The answer is yes. How do you know enough is enough? Because there is no distinction between enough and enough. In short, this paper is all about doubting distinctions. If you propose a distinction, I will doubt it.

Rogue cells of a loose confederation of experiences, known as El Qualia, have sworn an allegiance to destroy Willard Van Orman Quine’s concept of physicalism. These independent groups of cells are identified principally by what it is like to experience them rather than by any particular personal or geographic boundaries. El Qualia cells are known to disrupt the physical world by emerging in the mind and thereby forcing the acknowledgment of their existence.

But is there a distinction between these El Qualia cells and a bologna sandwich? The answer is, “no.” For is a bologna sandwich truly a bologna sandwich? Yes, there is no distinction. Well, then, if truth is, by definition, incoherent, then a bologna sandwich is truly an El Qualia cell.

Let’s come at it from a different angle. Suppose you have four people playing chess simultaneously against one another on 6 different chessboards. Two of the boards are synchronized so that all pieces move correspondingly, but in opposite directions. Now, suppose that the game is played in a rodeo arena where a bull and a wild bear are turned loose. Wouldn’t that be neat?

Now, suppose that the bear is riding the bull and that the bull is wearing rollerblades. Would you not wonder how they taught that bull to rollerblade? Would you not question how the bear learned to stay on the bull's back? Would anyone join the chess club?

So, I think we can see that the addition of a few variables turns an otherwise sedate intellectual game into a wild bloodbath of chaos. But does this render the experience anything other than chess? No, it remains chess, only it is 6 handed chess in a rodeo ring while running from a bear riding a bull on rollerblades.