Day 0335

I have eliminated almost all stressors from my life this week, and I'm really enjoying focusing on reading, researching, reflecting, painting. I'm not challenging my comfort zones, and it feels good.

Read What We Cannot Know, thought about the limitations of language. Can all knowledge be expressed in words? The voice in my head speaks English. Could it instead represent in a different mode? With maths? Am I trapped by language into thinking in a limiting way? The limitations of language are at the heart of many of the limits of knowledge.

Maths is a non-verbal way of representing information, but is it too a paradigm that will actually limit our access to knowledge? Is there another more powerful mode of thought?

You can 'follow the maths' to understand, on a certain level, quantum physics. But when you translate the maths to language, the understanding is lost. Can you really understand quantum physics through words, or do they limit what can be expressed?

Gödel's incompleteness theorems; there are always statements that are true but that cannot ever be proved from within the system. Yoo cannot prove, mathematically, that mathematics is free of contradictions.

Felt like I made some progress with painting today, and am glad I've overcome my inertia and have finally picked up my brushes and started to learn.