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GEB
    #14403302 - 05/05/11 01:10 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

Anyone here ever read Godel, Escher, Bach? If so maybe you can help me out... does it basically prove that any form of logic (even mathematics) is incomplete, because it is consistent?


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Re: GEB [Re: gotmagic]
    #14403407 - 05/05/11 01:51 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

That book proves nothing basically. :smile:


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Re: GEB [Re: Crasher]
    #14403499 - 05/05/11 02:59 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

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Re: GEB [Re: Sunny]
    #14403742 - 05/05/11 05:28 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

It's using Godel's incompleteness theorem (which is a self-referencing statement in the Principia Mathematica) to draw an analogy to how a sense of self arises in complex biological computers like us.

I haven't finished the book yet, but I read Hofstadter's other book (I Am A Strange Loop), in which he was very clear about what the main thesis of GEB was supposed to be.


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