Self-awareness is what allowed Kurt Godel to discover his incompleteness theorems.
That is, he observed the assumptions that were involved in mathematical reasoning as they arose and recursively fed them back into the equation until he was concretely aware that completeness and consistency cannot share the same universe.
This obvious truth embodies the entire "right brain" of rational thought - all of mathematics and science reflects this truth but very little of it is placed in service of it.
Genes, through their structure and composition, are intimately tied to the rest of the universe in that they externalize entropy in exponentially-increasing efficiency and variety of method but are in fact just pieces of that universe.
This is where Godel comes in.
Anywhere time exists an equation is taking place. It is made up of infinitesimally simple completed equations and will comprise an infinitely complex equation that does not exist yet.
This equation, the ones that comprise it, and the one it is forming, cannot be any more complete and consistent simultaneously than the ones that drove Godel to insanity and eventually indirect suicide.
There। How's that for a theory of everything?
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
The Macrocosm Reflected in the Microcosm
Posted by Dissident Gene at 5:54 PM
Labels: kurt godel, mathematics, metaphysics, philosophy
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