Re: Robot Evolution

Phil Roberts, Jr. wrote:

I have always thought the Godel argument
constitutes a pretty good ARGUMENT against a
computational view of the mind.

Why on earth so? All Goedel proved was that
mathematics was (necessarily) incomplete, not that
it was useless.

My knowledge of women is similarly incomplete. That
doesn't make that knowledge useless, it just means
that I need to check my work pretty carefully before
building structures that depend on my being correct.

xanthian.


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