Paper short abstract:

As a tactic of cognitive self-awareness, the reciprocity of perspectives is not so much a subjective metric for inter-cultural comparison as it is an internalized property of the human constitution, made famous by Claude Lévi-Strauss as the canonic formula for myth.

Paper long abstract:

As a tactic of cognitive self-awareness, the reciprocity of perspectives is not so much a subjective metric for intercultural comparison as it is an internalized property of the human constitution, made famous by Claude Lévi-Strauss as the canonic formula for myth. Understood most conveniently as the double proportional comparison it serves as the syllogistic basis for Wittgenstein's philosophy, Godel's proof, Bateson's schismogenesis, quadratic equations and, derivatively, Einstein's relativity, Lacan's mirror reflection ego, and Tesla's electrical motor-generator complex, to name only a few. Instead of opposing the innate and the artificial to one another, it presupposes reciprocity between the two.