This is not my new direction. What I want to do for my thesis is carry the unnameable formal ideas I referred to above to their unnatural conclusions. I want use biology, economics, the contemporary theory of metaphor, and Dr. Seuss. Intellectual masturbation is an interesting metaphor. Only according to a conventional metaphor system which posits mind and body as opposites can it even be a metaphor.
Masturbation is literally an intellectual experience.
Structures precede stories. That's a huge conversation and an interesting one. Let's have it.