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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 Undecidable Consequences of Uncertainty

As long as we have the necessities of life and comfort, I don't see any reason for making a distinction between problems in engineering and in physics. People want to know what the resolution is. One thing I say in the book about pure mathematical problems is that sometimes discovering that something is undecidable is the solution to the problem. And then you can go and criticize your intuitions in other ways because you're not gonna be able to resolve it by proving one of them true or false.

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