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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

Date: 2003-03-02 07:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cleodhna.livejournal.com
Heisenberg uncertainty principle.

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Date: 2003-03-02 08:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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.

Date: 2003-03-02 09:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cleodhna.livejournal.com
I hate when that happens! Glad to be of service, amyway.

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