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[andrewducker]

No system can be designed that can hold a complete representation of itself. After all, the complete description would have to include the complete description, and so on.

Or, more concisely: If the human mind were so simple that you could understand it, you would be so simple that you couldn't

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[onceupon.livejournal.com]

It's like that law, the name of which I can't remember, that states you cannot know both an object's speed and its location.

[cleodhna.livejournal.com]

Heisenberg uncertainty principle.

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[onceupon.livejournal.com]

Yes!

Thank you. It was driving me crazy in a low-grade fashion -- not enough to make me drop what I was doing and go look it up, but enough that I was thinking about it in some fashion for quite some time.

[cleodhna.livejournal.com]

I hate when that happens! Glad to be of service, amyway.

[kpollock.livejournal.com]

I recall saying a very similar thing about the universe a few weeks ago. or at least it seemed similar to me. I can't decide wheter it's very profound or utter crap. Maybe it;s both...