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RECURSION / SELF-REFERENCE / STRANGE LOOPS
RECURSION / SELF-REFERENCE / STRANGE LOOPS
System notes
Every sufficiently powerful formal system carries a hole it cannot patch
Self-reference creates undecidability, and undecidability creates universality
Every system that persists carries its own blueprint inside itself
Self-replication was deduced from logic before it was observed in biology
Self-reference has a thermodynamic price; no replicator escapes the entropy cost
Living systems are autopoietic networks that produce themselves
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Evidence ledger 7 · tier-ranked · API
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Every sufficiently powerful formal system carries a hole it cannot patch
sources: godel-1931
system
Self-reference creates undecidability, and undecidability creates universality
sources: turing-1936
system
Every system that persists carries its own blueprint inside itself
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Self-replication was deduced from logic before it was observed in biology
sources: von-neumann-1966
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Self-reference has a thermodynamic price; no replicator escapes the entropy cost
sources: landauer-1961, england-2013
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speculative0.75
Order emerges spontaneously at the edge of chaos before selection acts
sources: kauffman-1993
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