Ep 100: David Deutsch
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Are Undecidable Propositions Relevant to a Physical Theory?
Unprovable statements must vastly outnumber the number that are provable. And so they don't have, and again, i owd od appeal to your better knowledge on this,. They don't have any they can't possibly have any effects on our world. Thy're not going to help us to solve problems, as we would say. We know they exist. But beyond thatat are they interesting in any way? Well, theyre certainly interesting, because mathematics is interesting... It seems implausible at the moment that thater undecidable propositions might be relevant to some practical problem," he says.
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