"Now what is "music"–a sequence of vibrations in the air, or a succession of emotional responses in the brain?" - Douglas Hofstadter

In short, there are surprising new structures that looping gives rise to that constitute a new level of reality that could in principle be deduced from the basic loop and its detailed properties, but that in practice have a different kind of “life of their own” and that demand — at least when it comes to extremely finite, simplicity-seeking, pattern-loving creatures like us — a new vocabulary and a new level of description that transcend the basic level out of which they emerge.

The paraphrase of Gödel's Theorem says that for any record player, there are records which it cannot play because they will cause its indirect self-destruction.

It sometimes feels as if I had shouted a deeply cherished message out into an empty chasm and nobody heard me.