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Erik Hoel on Consciousness, Free Will, and the Limits of Science

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The Self Referential Paradox of Science

I'm going to read this passage I don't I don't 100% understand it from your book but I love it so you can say that you can add anything what you want to add then I'll want to find you a different one. Imagine a perfect map of an island and I do mean perfect even though it need not be as large as the island it's exactly to scale such that every rock tree and even grain of sand is represented on the map. Now imagine that the map is on the island itself what happens the observers now in the observed or if we think on that perfectly detailed map we see that it must contain within it a map of the map and that map must also be

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