StructureSometimes you have to break out of the structure you assume is reality.
Sitting here watching the Apple II screensaver while I read a Kate Shugak book, I suddenly remember how hard it was for me to write code without line numbers. I felt so lost the first time I tried to write prose without structure. It was so hard to find which line did what thing.
Spent around 45 minutes unicycling today, I actually idled once.
I've been thinking about Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem and how to creatively apply it to systems that annoy or irritate one.
This dovetails nicely with my earlier entry where I claim that the GPL is a viral license vaccine. I think the GPL is the licensing system used against itself. It also reminds me of the record players in Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter. In short, any system can be used against itself. If the GPL is the Klein bottle of licensing, what other examples are there? Can I deterministically find ways to break a system from the definition of the system itself?
This might even have neat applications in computer security.
I've also wondered whether overlapping systems could cover each others weak points, but I suspect two systems would generalize to a single system that still has weak points. If that's true, you have to wonder how the whole universe functions at all. Or maybe black holes are physical manifestations of the truth that Gödel discovered?
