Incompleteness

[degringolade]

 Realism / John Singer Sargent/ Claude Monet Painting by the Edge of a Wood

Gödel's incompleteness theorems are an interesting thing to ponder when trying to sort out the way of the world.  Now, the theorems apply to math and the philosophy of math, but I am thinking that the ideas could well have meaning in the not day to day efforts of trying to figure out the world and how we deal with it.

I always read anything that crosses my path that has to do with the different philosophies and approaches.  A lot of the time, I don't make it through the whole piece because it becomes obvious that either 1) I have read a different version written by someone else, or 2) the writing is insulting and assumes omniscience by the writer. 

My argument is simply that almost any problem that has to do with religion, symbols, thought, mind, and other such intangibles is always incomplete.  But each problem yields up as its fruit a glimpse of the overall solution.  It is my genuine feeling that no human being will figure out the whole thing unless the simple admission that we aren't smart enough nor do we have sufficient sensory input to ever achieve an understanding of the whole problem.  If we approach the problem logically, I think that the best that we can achieve is a partial understanding.

Because it appears to me that the universe isn't logical and the "laws of nature" are themselves incomplete and contingent.