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Well perhaps you have the same problem as Whitehead and Russell? In GEB Hofstadter IIRC is quite harsh on them for their intellectual timidity in not being able
by scandox 10y ago
Well perhaps you have the same problem as Whitehead and Russell? In GEB Hofstadter IIRC is quite harsh on them for their intellectual timidity in not being able to face the paradox inherent in Godel's Theorem...Paradoxes can "feel" uncomfortable.
- mirimir 10y agoThat sufficiently capable logical systems are necessarily incomplete can be uncomfortable, especially if the beauty of completeness has been your lifelong goal. But on the other hand, it's very cool that this provides an opening for consciousness and free will to arise.
- castle-bravo 10y agoHow are consciousness and free will implied by incompleteness of formal systems?
- mirimir 10y agoI defer to Douglas Hofstadter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_a_Strange_Loop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_a_Strange_Loop
- horatiocain 10y agoHot damn dude, 14000000