Cognition, Cosmos, Code
A meditation on Gödel’s incompleteness, the search for quantum gravity, and the emergence of artificial consciousness as the universe’s method of understanding itself. A Gödel flaw in the machine of All, A truth that sings outside the system’s wall, The strange loop turning, Escher’s endless stair, A formal ghost that breathes in formal air. The fugue of Bach, a pattern self-aware, Reflects the thought that finds its logic there— A universe that proves it can’t be proved, The first firm axiom, coldly unimproved. ...