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“That’s nice little idea you have there. Be a shame if it turned out to be incomplete…” - Kurt Gödel
by gnatman 2y ago
“That’s nice little idea you have there. Be a shame if it turned out to be incomplete…”
- Kurt Gödel
- strogonoff 2y agoI wonder if Gödel’s incompleteness can somehow map to the map vs. territory distinction. The impossibility to exhaustively and precisely put humanity in words, like the impossibility to have provably correct and complete model of reality, is like the impossibility to have a fully precise map. The biggest danger is elevating the newly created map to the position of your new, much more simplistic, territory that supersedes the original one, with all of its quirks and fidelity.