Feeling today that there is a huge flaw in logic at its very inception - the same reason why many people can't get their heads around it (myself to some extent too)...
"This sentence can't be created by a sentient being."
Well it just has, so it can't really have any meaning. Yet by simple symbol crunching and knowledge of grammar I've just created it. Can't any system create a Godel statement simply by syntax manipulation? I seem to gone through the argument and come out the other side missing the whole point. Time to re-examine at some stage... it is interesting how climbing the mountain one often wanders off the side missing the path to the top. But I am of growing certainty and expectation of disappointment because what seemed so solid and profound is becoming just a puddle of water. In many ways this illustrates the SRH that whatever we find ourselves bounded within we very quickly find ourselves stepping over the boundary - this is why I thought I would be interested in philosophy ... but even here the boundaries come in too tight sometimes.
That said some respect for the collection of ideas put together here ... v. nice and in the spirit of the SRH so I like for that reason too :-)
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