The objective and rational method delivers a reality which is testable - according to the kinds of tests intrinsic to that method - and which also is accretive and reasonably consistent in its growth, a sort of gradually extended map of all that is presumed to be. There remains something deeply unsatisfying about this reality, although again opposing the tendency to seek satisfaction was always one of its founding principles - we cannot be satisfied with any notion of reality that is not unsatisfying - reality is defined as what opposes our wishes. A nagging doubt remains however: the problem of skepticism is not solved, the putative reality is a 'view from nowhere', there is no account of subjectivity, the 'hard problem' remains untouched. Is there a deeper intuition that demands that wisdom tell us who and what we are, and what exactly we are doing here, if indeed 'we' are 'here' at all? Notions of reality reflect the metaphysical culture in which the self that forms them arises, just as this forming self is in turn formed by a prior understanding. If opposing the wishes natural to such a self is a clue along which we can progress, reshaping ourselves as we go, there may be a limit to this process. What seems infinite from inside is seen as futile, a dog chasing its tail, once the whole picture is glimpsed.