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Dual Computational Horizons: Incompleteness and Unpredictability in Intelligent Systems

Published: December 18, 2025 | arXiv ID: 2512.16707v2

By: Abhisek Ganguly

Potential Business Impact:

Computers can't know everything about their own future.

Business Areas:
Artificial Intelligence Artificial Intelligence, Data and Analytics, Science and Engineering, Software

We formalize two independent computational limitations that constrain algorithmic intelligence: formal incompleteness and dynamical unpredictability. The former limits the deductive power of consistent reasoning systems while the latter bounds long-term prediction under finite precision. We show that these two extrema together impose structural bounds on an agent's ability to reason about its own predictive capabilities. In particular, an algorithmic agent cannot verify its own maximal prediction horizon universally. This perspective clarifies inherent trade-offs between reasoning, prediction, and self-analysis in intelligent systems. The construction presented here constitutes one representative instance of a broader logical class of such limitations.

Country of Origin
šŸ‡®šŸ‡³ India

Page Count
8 pages

Category
Computer Science:
Artificial Intelligence