Physics and Consciousness – 3
Like Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem stands as a monument demarcating the limits of rational thought. It stands there at the edge of the cliff of the mind. The theorem boils down to showing that a rational system of thought can either be consistent but incomplete or complete but inconsistent. Think about it like this. If you try to keep your room clean, you will always have something untidy to clean. But if you accept your whole room as it is, it will be disorganized. If you try to be consistent in your cleaning, your attempts will be incomplete. If you try to be complete in your approach to cleaning, your room will be inconsistently organized.
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