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I also read the book and disliked it for exactly the same reason (and I say this as a big Penrose admirer, both before and after). Can you give us at least an
by iainmerrick 6y ago
I also read the book and disliked it for exactly the same reason (and I say this as a big Penrose admirer, both before and after).
Can you give us at least an idea of what bits we might be missing?
- pegasus 6y agoSee my reply on a sibling comment. Also, it's one of very few popular books that goes deep on the subject of Goedel's Theorem and the limit discoveries in logic and computability. A subject that in my view deserves to be more in our collective consciousness than even Quantum Physics since it's implications are likely to be even more profound.
- iainmerrick 6y agoIf I remember right, that section didn’t differ substantially from Lucas’s argument, which I thought had already been effectively rebutted (eg in Godel, Escher, Bach). But maybe I’ll take another look and see if that’s fair.