
Godel's Incompleteness Theorems
In Our Time: Philosophy
The Incompleteness Theorem
The incompleteness theorem is a sort of spin that mathematicians put on girdle. It says there are mathematical truths that the computer could never reach, and only human intuition could get at it. Because science and physics is based on mathematics, there was some incompleteness about physics and science. And you sometimes saw this being cited by by theologians as being a limit to human understanding of the universe. Next week we will talk about the eighteenth and nineteenth century quest for the spark in frankenstein.
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