Sunday, September 1, 2013

Logical descriptions of complex worlds contain within themselves the seeds of their own limitation

From Impossibility: The Limits of Science and the Science of Limits by John D. Barrow, page 3.
Logical descriptions of complex worlds contain within themselves the seeds of their own limitation. A world that was simple enough to be fully known would be too simple to contain conscious observers who might know it.

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