A system can not know itself. As the Zen master said: a knife cannot cut itself. This statement is mathematically demonstrated by Gödel's theory, which is simplified by the Zen statement This sentence is false. That sentence cannot be true as it cannot be false. So what is it? I guess it's like, as the Zen master says, the sound of one clapping hand (*). The cause of the mechanism is the fact that the system is trying to act on itself. This is called recursion. An event, causes the same event, with different polarity, which causes again the same event, opening the doors for infinity and indetermination. Recursion.
I observed this phenomena happening also in less strict logical environment. It looks like, as soon as something or someone is talking about himself, the door is opened for decadence and decay. That's why I always doubt when people talk about themselves, and turn my head the other way around. The inner directed drive of recursion causes contradiction and implosion.
(*) What is the zen master doing with the other hand?
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