Consciousness as a Gödel sentence in the language of science
Why the Hard Problem (might be) so Hard
"I'm certainly not the first person to point out that there are oddities around consciousness and self-reference. But I actually think a lot of the work doesn't directly touch on scientific incompleteness—it's the sort of thing that people think exists fleshed out in detail somewhere, but then struggle to put to a clear source."
Erik Hoel
https://www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/consciousness-as-a-godel-sentence
this issue is taken up in
Plato's Parmenides, the section in which Parmenides illustrates the inevitable contradictions arising from the dialectical process.
and Buddhist logic also deals with it, under the topic of the limits of cognition.
the emptiness of concepts and systems. scientists are herded away from philosophy, too dangerous. that's why these troubles persist.
in early days, scientists were philosophers also.
