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Ep 82: David Deutsch answers a question about Gödel and undecidability. (A question for David number 6).

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The Importance of Undecidable Propositions

Unprovable statements must vastly outnumber the number that are provable. And so they don't have, and again, I would appeal to your better knowledge on this, they can't possibly have any effects on our world. They're not going to help us to solve problems, as we would say. But maybe one day somebody invents a different physical theory where the undecidability of certain propositions about the real numbers would tell you how to feed the world or eliminate viruses.

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