Chapter 4: Chaitin, The Thinker

Today, more than ever, we are in the presence of a paradox: not any paradox, but “the” paradox. Humankind cannot progress along a clear and distinct pathway, as Descartes, Laplace and the entire rational European Modernity dreamed of; there is not a single destiny predetermined forever, there is no equation that bluntly determines the sense of reality; we are paralyzed in the presence of the paradox, be it in a disciplinary manner, since sciences, humanities, arts cannot do research in full homogeneous fields; reality is fissured, with a high porosity, how can one think about Russell’s paradox? Is it possible to think about the paradox? What is thinking? Who is a thinker?… Chaitin is a thinker…