Curiouser and curiouser. When we map a living thing upon or within itself and in or through its own cognitive and representational hyper-extension of technological mediation, we find our minds engaging this all as an aspiration towards closure and control yet forever fall short of attaining that goal.
We can not completely model or map the electrochemical complexity of the brain from within a representational system because that particular dialect of ordered encoding or information mapping can always be extended, just as minds learn by growing.
That extensibility is a recursive function that resembles an enigmatic bootstrap we might otherwise recognise as the mystery of our own consciousness.
The lowest hanging fruit of entry-level enigmas here appears to be that the self-inflected experience of mind is unable to obtain the closure that language (and technology!) so effectively dissimulate.
This absence of system unity and closure (as incomplete knowledge) is precisely what invokes and allows experience and learning (as connectome growth).
Addressed as a holistic, philosophical concept: the mystery is that the system of mind only contains (and recursively activates) itself by being unable to do so, the incompleteness provides the unity.
The unity of experience is also its own conspicuously absent inverse image as invocation of a higher-dimensional continuum of which time is simply the lowest rung on the ladder.
Artificial General Intelligence is a Zen thing.
Daedelus Kite 