― Ted Chiang, quote from Stories of Your Life and Others I see myself thinking, and I see the equations that describe my thinking, and I see myself comprehending the equations, and I see how the equations describe their being comprehended. What I can do is perceive the gestalts I see the mental structures forming, interacting. I don't pretend to see my own neurons firing such claims belong to John Lilly and his LSD experiments of the sixties.
With this language, I can see how my mind is operating. What Gödel would have given to see this language, where modifying a statement causes the entire grammar to be adjusted. It is meta-self-descriptive and self-editing not only can it describe thought, it can describe and modify its own operations as well, at all levels. Like God creating order from chaos with an utterance, I make myself anew with this language. I know my mind in terms of a language more expressive than any I'd previously imagined. A new meaning of the term "self-aware."įiat logos.
The nature of recursive cognition is clear to me. I understand the infinite regress of this self-knowing, not by proceeding step by step endlessly, but by apprehending the limit. I know precisely how I know, and my understanding is recursive. “I understand the mechanism of my own thinking.
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