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Just to add to this point, with something that Yuval Noah Harari said in an interview with Sam Harris: "If tensions, conflicts and irresolvable dilemmas are
by ycombinete 9y ago
Just to add to this point, with something that Yuval Noah Harari said in an interview with Sam Harris:
"If tensions, conflicts and irresolvable dilemmas are the
spice of every culture, a human... must hold contradictory
beliefs and be riven by incompatible values. Cognitive
dissonance is often considered a failure of the human
psyche. In fact, it is a vital asset. Had people been unable
to hold contradictory beliefs and values, it would probably
have been impossible to establish and maintain any human
culture."
- smallnamespace 9y agoGodel's Incompleteness Theorem proves that at least in math, there's a tradeoff between power and completeness / consistency, in that formal systems than can encode arithmetic can prove more things, but they are necessarily either inconsistent or incomplete. Would make a lot of sense if this tradeoff were also present in other contexts.