Re: Can anyone explain this quote?

Claudio Grondi wrote: 
Consider such a system. Does it know that it knows the full information
about itself? Not yet? No problem, it can be added to it. Does the system
now know, that it was added to it the knowledge, that it knows the full
information about itself? Not yet? No problem, it can be added to it ...

In my eyes there is a huge amount of hints towards believing, that the quote
is right.

No, it's possible to avoid the infinite regress by using data compression techniques. That's what Goedel did.

-- Ben
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