> The implication is that all logical system of any complexity are, by definition, incomplete; each of them contains, at any given time, more true statements than it can possibly prove according to its own defining set of rules.
Here is an even simpler explanation:
A description of a thing is not the thing itself, it's just a description that allows you to: interact with that thing and place that thing into a framework.
And an even more accurate description of a thing is still not the thing itself, it's just a more accurate description.
Add more layers, and you still have just a description, and never the thing itself.
It's like an onion, and each layer gets more distant from the core.
Then those layers begin to interact with other descriptions of other things. So more layers are added to explain those interactions.
It goes on and on until you've simulated the universe.
The problem is it's exponential, and even if it was not, you're still just stuck with just a description, and not the thing itself.
Some people will claim otherwise here, so just ask them if a description of a thing is the same as the thing itself and go back to the start of all this.
Here is an even simpler explanation:
A description of a thing is not the thing itself, it's just a description that allows you to: interact with that thing and place that thing into a framework.
And an even more accurate description of a thing is still not the thing itself, it's just a more accurate description.
Add more layers, and you still have just a description, and never the thing itself.
It's like an onion, and each layer gets more distant from the core.
Then those layers begin to interact with other descriptions of other things. So more layers are added to explain those interactions.
It goes on and on until you've simulated the universe.
The problem is it's exponential, and even if it was not, you're still just stuck with just a description, and not the thing itself.
Some people will claim otherwise here, so just ask them if a description of a thing is the same as the thing itself and go back to the start of all this.