O.G. Rose | The Map Is Indestructible (Part 2) by O.G. Rose @O.G.Rose.Michelle.and.Daniel | Uploaded September 2024 | Updated October 2024, 4 hours ago.
'The proof of arithmetic's consistency could not be relative [but] had to be an 'absolute proof,' ' but after Gödel such a proof was impossible. He succeeded at oddly 'proving that there are true arithmetical propositions that are not provable,' meaning "proof" and "true" are not similes, meaning "consistency" and "correspondence" aren't, and that obliterates any dream for a formal system. 'For a system to be consistent means that it does not yield any logical contradictions,' and if reality is contradictory (A/B) as Hegel teaches though, no "consistent system" can actually be about reality - except perhaps by removing humans from it (without humans perhaps realizing it) (as discussed in II.1; Land waits). This is what Korzybski understood, and this is why he might welcome Gödel's work as helping us move toward "a science of sanity" - though oddly through a theorem that seems to suggest madness is our destiny (irony can gift)...
Substack:
ogrose.substack.com/p/the-map-is-indestructible-part-ii
Medium:
o-g-rose-writing.medium.com/the-map-is-indestructible-part-ii-b409f3d54a8b
Photo by Ardalan Ameli
'The proof of arithmetic's consistency could not be relative [but] had to be an 'absolute proof,' ' but after Gödel such a proof was impossible. He succeeded at oddly 'proving that there are true arithmetical propositions that are not provable,' meaning "proof" and "true" are not similes, meaning "consistency" and "correspondence" aren't, and that obliterates any dream for a formal system. 'For a system to be consistent means that it does not yield any logical contradictions,' and if reality is contradictory (A/B) as Hegel teaches though, no "consistent system" can actually be about reality - except perhaps by removing humans from it (without humans perhaps realizing it) (as discussed in II.1; Land waits). This is what Korzybski understood, and this is why he might welcome Gödel's work as helping us move toward "a science of sanity" - though oddly through a theorem that seems to suggest madness is our destiny (irony can gift)...
Substack:
ogrose.substack.com/p/the-map-is-indestructible-part-ii
Medium:
o-g-rose-writing.medium.com/the-map-is-indestructible-part-ii-b409f3d54a8b
Photo by Ardalan Ameli
