Part 10.
Wider Implications of Jinx and Charm.
According to Goedel, existence is
jinxed; to claim one’s own irrefutable presence ensures self-destruction.
Therefore a money system, in the very act of proclaiming its own solvency, runs
afoul of Goedel’s Jinx and
goes bankrupt! I theorize that this ironic pitfall explains the persistence of
fiscal booms and busts.
Goedel’s Jinx also applies, I think,
to similar collapses in politics and religion. Invincible empires and
infallible faiths have a way of going bust; Goedel’s Jinx
explains why.
Goedel’s Jinx works because self-pride
makes an infinite claim - namely, that there’s a infinite and consistent model
of arithmetic - based upon finite data - namely, self-pride’s own small self. Loeb’s Charm works in
reverse; self-proof makes a finite claim - that it has a proof - based upon
sufficient data - its own vain self. Self-validation validates itself because
it speaks only of itself, and so risks nothing.
According to Loeb, universality is
charmed; to proclaim self-necessity is to repeat a truism. Self-proof is empty
necessity. It says nothing, and it says it; it proves itself because bubbles
rise. Correct self-accounting is an example of a Loebian
self-validation bubble in finance. I leave it to the reader to find similar
charmed quanta in politics and religion.
One would expect self-existence to
be a humbler claim than self- necessity; after all self-pride merely calls
itself true in some model of
arithmetic, whereas self-belief calls itself true in every model of arithmetic. But what self-belief needs is merely a
proof, which is finite; self-pride needs an entire infinite number system. The
joke is that there might not be any
models of arithmetic; it’s inherently uncertain; a mystery which self-pride
tries to resolve, and fails.
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