“To pretend, I actually
“To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.”
Jacques Derrida (1930 – 2004)
French Philosopher
“Everything I say is a lie. I am telling the truth.”
Kurt Godel (1006 – 1978)
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Godel’s Incompleteness Theorem; any formal system that attempts to capture all the truths in its finite set of axioms and rules is doomed to render some theorems undeclarable. For example, if the first statement above is true, the second statement must be false. This line of unreasonable reasoning led to the mathematical concept of recursive functions including the most famous of recursives: the Mandelbrot Set, aka Fractals.
