Causality Dilemma

Understanding self, and understanding that we understand self

A priori science isn’t purely a priori. Rather, it requires at least one observation to start a chain of logical deduction. In other words, a priori chains of reasoning require a posteriori seeds.

Mathematics an a priori discipline considered most foundational for the sciences, is formulated within a physical system—the human brain—which understands itself through empirical evidence and the various representations of its phenotypes. We call this act neuroscience, which is rooted in physical processes, which we model in the language of mathematics, which our brains created, which we understand through neuroscience.

Indeed, the brain is an edge case of science that yields a causality dilemma like the chicken and egg problem. The brain realizing that this is an edge case is yet another edge case paradox, ad infinitum recursively. We reveal the following structure:

In practice, recursion past N=2 or N=3 seems to require consolidating a heuristic of the recursion in a parallel process. Note that this intuition is also courtesy of the brain.

If you have recommendations for formal readings relevant to this school of thought, email me titles and authors: mihirrao@princeton.edu