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I recently read (in Dawkins' The Ancestor's Tale) about the Alu sequence, and went on to read about transposons generally.  Having as I do a

Follow-up to: Syntacticism I wrote: The only objects that are real (in a Platonic sense) are formal systems (or rather, syntaxes). That

I've mentioned in comments a couple of times that I don't consider formal systems to talk about themselves, and that consequently Gödelian p