> Consider the wave-particle duality in quantum mechanics. Every particle behaves as a wave, as long as you haven’t interacted with it. Thanks to Haskell’s lazy

> Consider the wave-particle duality in quantum mechanics. Every particle behaves as a wave, as long as you haven’t interacted with it. Thanks to Haskell’s lazy evaluation values are also only evaluated once they are accessed (interacted with particles), and stay unevaluated thunks (waves) in the meantime. Lazy evaluation is a beautiful thing, and in many ways, it is the solution self-reference. Hofstadter in "I am a strange loop" and Gödel Escher Bach talks about this, well, he talks about many things, but he also talks about how Gödel's numbers can map to proofs that are self-referential, and relates that to humans, how out of very basic building-blocks, if enough representational power exists, self-reference and therefore consciousness exists. He posits that humans, while self-referential, don't fall into infinite strange loops because they can assign the abstraction of "self" onto an "object" and evaluate only as needed. In essence, the "self" is lazily evaluated.