May 19, 2006
GÖDEL IN A NUTSHELL
Verena Huber-Dyson at Edge.org:
The essence of Gödel's incompleteness theorem is that you cannot have both completeness and consistency. A bold anthropomorphic conclusion is that there are three types of people; those that must have answers to everything; those that panic in the face of inconsistencies; and those that plod along taking the gaps of incompleteness as well as the clashes of inconsistencies in stride if they notice them at all, or else they succumb to the tragedy of the human condition.
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This is a very strange interpretation of Gödel's theorem. The same author seems to have written a couple of reasonable things for the Edge, but this is more like a stream-of-consciousness riff on that theorem than a rational comment on it.
What does a metamathematical theorem have to do with "types of people," the Supreme Being, and claustrophobics? Perhaps she is pulling our legs.
Posted by: JonJ | May 20, 2006 9:52:18 AM
Hi, Nice!
Posted by: cagnu | May 27, 2006 3:38:17 PM
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