It is a great truth, and so it ought to have a large meaning perhaps it should have the power to change lives. The incompleteness theorem proved in 1931 by Kurt Gödel seems to be another candidate for metaphoric inflation. Or distended, in a similar way: From the principle that any observer disturbs the thing he measures comes the notion that no bystander is entirely innocent. The uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics has been extended, Entropy tends to increase, and so the world is called on to express a variety of sentiments about the common fate of dissipation and decay. Everybody's favorite is the concept of entropy, a ApGodel, Escher, Bach Reviewed By BRIAN HAYES ertain ideas in the sciences have been stuffed almost to bursting with metaphoric meaning.
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