Aspects of Reference and Information

作者：Song Daegene^*

来源：Neuroquantology, 2017, 15(2): 104-108.

DOI：10.14704/nq.2017.15.2.1011

• Self-reference
• self-observation
• cyclical time

The self-reference method has yielded some of the most important results in the study of mathematical logic and computation. The physical realization of the self-reference method has been said to be the self-observation of consciousness, which suggests a non-computable element (i.e., there exists a natural phenomenon that cannot be computed). However, the contradiction or paradox in self-reference may be solved by adopting cyclical time. Contrary to the familiar notion of time as a linear progression, the cyclical concept of time suggests that time circulates. In this cyclical time model (i.e., t(0) -> t(1) -> ...t(N) -> t(0)), the non-computable element in self-observation can be considered to be computable.

• 出版日期2017-6