#34 Converations on Complexity: Neil Theise
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The Incompleteness Theorem
Kurt Girdle was a mathematical plaphanist who believed that The realm of mathematics existed in a platonic realm as in Plato beyond our world. He came up with the incompleteness theorem, which showed that if you have a system of proofs that explains everything it will inevitably contain a contradiction. In fact consciousness is what decides whether light is going to be a wave or a particle in this particular instant Because the conscious observation determines that in the famous double slit experiments Which I go into in the book Now But fame be familiar with the idea that quantum physics really screwed The nature of the material universe and yet we still have the mathematics.
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