Re: Robot Evolution



"Kent Paul Dolan" xanthian@xxxxxxxx wrote:-

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.

JE:-
WHY mathematics remains critically "incomplete" supplies your answer. Do you
know why?

Regards,

John Edser
Independent Researcher

edser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx



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