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G\"odel Mirror: A Formal System For Contradiction-Driven Recursion

Logic in Computer Science 2025-09-23 v1 Programming Languages

Abstract

We introduce the G\"odel Mirror, a formal system defined in Lean 4 that treats contradiction as a control signal for recursive structural evolution. Inspired by G\"odelian self-reference, our system's operational semantics encode symbolic paradoxes as deterministic transitions. Unlike systems designed to guarantee normalization, the G\"odel Mirror is a minimal and verifiable architecture that leverages a controlled, non-terminating loop as a productive feature. Our Lean 4 mechanization proves that self-referential paradoxes are deterministically encapsulated and resolved into new structures without leading to logical explosion, yielding a paraconsistent inference loop: Paradox -> Encapsulate -> Reenter -> Node We argue that this calculus opens a new class of symbolic systems in which contradiction is metabolized into structure, providing a formal basis for agents capable of resolving internal inconsistencies.

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@article{arxiv.2509.16239,
  title  = {G\"odel Mirror: A Formal System For Contradiction-Driven Recursion},
  author = {Jhet Chan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.16239},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

10 pages. Preprint submitted to Logical Methods in Computer Science (LMCS)

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