"The moment when our artist has regressed to the point of infinity and... is both the observer and the observed"
"Could you explain 'infinite regression' for us?" - Bill Bonds

"Roll the film.

I came prepared to do just that.

Now, here's a painting of a landscape. Now, the artist who painted that picture says ''Something is missing. What is it?'

'It is I myself who was part of the landscape I painted.'

So he mentally takes a step backward, or regresses, and paints a picture of the artist painting a picture ofthe landscape.

But still something is missing. That is still his real self painting the second picture.

So he regresses further, and paints a third.

A picture ofthe artist painting a picture of the artist painting a picture ofthe landscape.

And because something is still missing, he paints a fourth and a fifth until he paints a picture ofthe artist painting a picture ofthe artist painting a picture of the artist painting a picture of the artist painting a landscape." - Dr. Otto Hasselin

"So infinite regression, then, is..." - Bill Bonds

"The moment when our artist has regressed to the point of infinity and is part of the landscape he painted, and is both the observer and the observed." - Dr. Otto Hasselin

from:

Escape from the Planet of the Apes - Don Taylor (1971)

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