1. Self-Reference
The first concept I shall discuss is, I believe, the most crucial and the most subtle of all those I will cover. It is the concept of self-reference. This describes some object or system that contains, in some form, a description of itself. This would seem to be straightforwardly impossible in a finite system. An infinite set can contain itself, in the …
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