Full Idea
A cognitive mechanism that wants to know itself!! We definitely should have moved beyond this absurd goal! (The stomach that consumes itself! -)
Gist of Idea
A cognitive mechanism wanting to know itself is absurd!
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Unpublished Notebooks 1884-85 [1884], 26[018])
Book Reference
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Fragments from 1884-85 (v 15)', ed/tr. Loeb,P.S./Tinsley,D.F. [Stanford 2022], p.139
A Reaction
We see his point, but Nietzsche learns a huge amount about himself by introspection. To know the Self is a cat chasing its tail. I don't have to leave England to study England.