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Math as a perspective on life (with Marcus du Sautoy)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

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The Problem With Goedles in Completeness Theorem

Goedles in completeness theorem refers to first order logic. If you're allowed to sort of quantify over sets of things which is a sort of second order logic then I think that you can then make the thing complete. So maybe a slug has no notion that it is a thing that exists in the world but maybe a cat actually can think about the fact that it itself is a distinct entity and like model its own future behavior or something like this. And maybe this is kind of a turning point related to consciousness. Yeah, exactly.

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