/sci/ - Science & Math

How far back in the event chain of existance can we go before it breaks down?

>>15258788
Your insistence that it's just a feeling is also just a feeling

brainlet here-

Why can't I understand the importance of Godel's theorems?

As the story goes, mathematicians were trying to find a perfect set of axioms for the foundations of math and number theory. And then Godel came along and fucked it all up with some fancy Godel Numbering bullshit.

As far as I can tell, math is just a bunch of made up ideas for modeling reality, and I don't get why anyone ever expected for formal systems like that to be complete and consistent or whatever the fuck.

After all, the 'mathematics' that is discussed on this board is just a meme that has never actually existed outside of the patterns of nerve impulses inside human skulls. Things like 'point', 'line', 'pi', and '-1/12' are only useful fictions, and we shouldn't endow the logical systems that we construct around them with any supernatural significance.

Am I wrong? If so, explain to me wtf is the big deal with Godel's theorems.