# the asymmetry

**The asymmetry between doubt and certainty in a system**

A broken system can be certain of itself for free, while a healthy one can only trust. So from inside, total certainty is what a broken mind would feel, and a bit of doubt is what a sound one would carry. That would make humility a structural feature, and a virtue only second.

Connects to:
- [Löb’s theorem](https://mapideas.org/i/h_lob)
- [free certainty](https://mapideas.org/i/w_free)
- [knows its hole](https://mapideas.org/i/c_hole)
- [broken signature](https://mapideas.org/i/p_sig)
- [designed or emergent?](https://mapideas.org/i/p_q)
- [Gödel](https://mapideas.org/i/godel)

Source: https://mapideas.org/i/h_asym · open on the map: https://mapideas.org/#h_asym