Tag: Kurt Gödel
New! Philosopher and Mathematician David Berlinski on “Science After Babel”
“Many will read this book for the close, elegant reasoning, the astonishing erudition, or the mordant analysis. I confess I read it for the prose.”
Breaking Google Bard
The fundamental problem with these systems is Goedelian. Kurt Goedel showed that formal systems like this are unable to extract themselves from these systems.
Can a Dog Be Bred to Be as Smart as a Human?
An enterprising electrical engineer, Payton Pearson, thinks it can be done. There are reasons for doubt.
How Materialism Proves Unbounded Scientific Ignorance
There is an infinite number of things that are true that we cannot prove scientifically and never will.
Listen: Mathematician Gregory Chaitin on Gödel, Incompleteness … and Children
Chaitin discusses his beginnings in computer science, growing up in the 1960s a stone’s throw from Central Park, historic scientists in his field, and more.