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Letter: Exploring the maze of consciousness (1)

Published 5 November 2025

From Andrew Taubman, Sydney,<br/>Australia

Just as Gödel’s incompleteness theorems show that no number system can fully describe itself, it seems clear from Kuhn’s excellent survey of the field that whatever consciousness is, ours cannot fully understand itself. How about we just drop the whole field and concentrate on more solvable things?

Issue no. 3568 published 8 November 2025

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