# I Am a Strange Loop * Page 41 IASL - an explanation could involve a short cut, it could be global not just local. It could be “the *simplest* description that would give rise to the data generation procedure at hand” * Does godel proof have anything to do with interpretation or meaning? IASL pg 138, 148, 150 - meaning isn’t as clear as one may have thought. Does that relate to my essay? When H says analogy makes meaning, does he really mean that even if it’s just an arbitrary isomorphism? That sounds like moravec. What if it’s a bad explanation? He seems to be referencing self similarity and universality of computation. How does his universal computation relate to isomorphisms? * In the case of Gödel, the meaning was created by a specific system that he created! It wasn’t a random isomorphism. It was a specific system that was hard to vary. So if someone interprets a string to mean what its Gödel number meant, thats a totally valid interpretation because it’s a good explanation (unlike a totally random interpretation, like a rock is conscious) * Pg 153, 154 * Could reasoning have anything to do with being able to *step outside the system*? For instance, could it be that most things humans do are executing predefined programs. In other words, the programs are executing them (see: [Computation is Following Rules](Computation%20is%20Following%20Rules.md)). But, when we *really* are reasoning, we are not following some predefined algorithm. We are being creative? This seems related in some way to stepping outside the system in the Godellian sense --- Date: 20250218 Links to: Tags: References: * []()