All The Limitative Theorems Of Metamathematics And The Theory Of Computation Suggest That Once The Ability To Represent Your Own Structure Has Reached A Certain Critical Poi

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All the limitative Theorems of metamathematics and the
theory of computation suggest that once the ability to
represent your own structure has reached a certain critical
point, that is the kiss of death: it guarantees that you can
never represent yourself totally. Godel's Incompleteness
Theorem, Church's Undecidability Theorem, Turing's Halting
Problem, Tarski's Truth Theorem-- all have the flavour of some
ancient fairy tale which warns you that "To seek self-
knowledge is to embark on a journey which . . . will always be
incomplete, cannot be charted on a map, will never halt,
cannot be described."
-- Douglas R. Hofstadter

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