Steve, it's so simple even I can understand it! :-P

But then I have had decades to get my head around it .... the same as for Hofstadter's Pulitzer Prize winning book "Escher Godel and Bach - An Eternal Golden Braid"

"At its basic level, the Law of Fives is a practical demonstration that perception is intent-sensitive; that is, the perceiver's intentions inform the perception. To whatever extent one considers that perception is identical with reality, then, it has the corollary that reality is intent-sensitive."