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Thanks Ed, surprising I never came across that quote before but it helps put an argument I've been trying to work through together better. It's obscure but: A
by messel 17y ago
Thanks Ed, surprising I never came across that quote before but it helps put an argument I've been trying to work through together better.
It's obscure but:
A subject within a system can't possibly have knowledge of all states within the same system, only an external perspective can see the true state of all things.
It's related to self perception, and maybe the limits of what we can understand about our universe.
- pbhjpbhj 17y agoYou should read about Godel's incompleteness theorem, if you haven't already.
- anonjon 17y agoAlso read Wittgenstein. This is the sort of thing he was trying to convey in his first work. (Language is a system for describing problems and sometimes we ask problems about the language system itself, which cannot be answered within that system).
- mkramlich 17y agoand then read this brilliant book, perfect for hackers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gödel,_Escher,_Bach http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gödel,_Escher,_Bach