What does Godël’s Incompleteness Theorem actually mean and imply? I just saw Ted-Ed’s video on this topic and didn’t fully understand what it means or what the implications of this are.

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What does Godël’s Incompleteness Theorem actually mean and imply? I just saw Ted-Ed’s video on this topic and didn’t fully understand what it means or what the implications of this are.

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I like the russian nesting doll example for it. To explain everything in one doll you need another to encapsulate it. Scale that up a ton and you’d need to be outside of the universe to explain everything inside the universe.