Godel did not argue or show "there are fundamental epistemic limits to the universe". The universe is not a formal axiomatic system.
This repeats an very old, popular pop-philosophy misconception about Godel's theorems and GEB seems to have done nothing to help with this category error.
Whether or not the universe is (or, to split hairs, may be exactly expressed as) a formal axiomatic system, was very much an open question, one which Gödel helped answer conclusively in the negative.
This repeats an very old, popular pop-philosophy misconception about Godel's theorems and GEB seems to have done nothing to help with this category error.