https://aeon.co/essays/will-brains-or-algorithms-rule-the-kingdom-of-science
interesting essay about epistomolgy and ontology, neural networks and learning.
"Solving chess solves chess, not thought"
Gödel discovered that in every strictly formal mathematical system, there are statements that cannot be confirmed or refuted even when tehy are derived from the axioms of the system itself. The axioms of a formal system allow for the possibility of contradictions, and it is these contradictions that constitute the basis of the experience of paradox. Gödel's basic insight was that any system of rules has a natural domain of application - but when rules are applied to inputs that are not of the same structure which guided the rules' development, then we can expect weirdness.
