> Actually I tend to think that Godel's and other incompleteness > result makes comp a sort of vaccine against reductionist view of > self and reality (and arithmetic).
Agreed. Godel, (as interpreted by Chaitin), precludes a "purely" reductionist view of both, IMHO. Given Reductionism as: "Belief that statements or expressions of one sort can be replaced systematically by statements or expressions of a simpler or more certain kind. Thus, for example, some philosophers have held that arithmetic can be reduced to logic, that the mental can be reduced to the physical, or that the life sciences can be reduced to the physical sciences." Self and reality are "incompressible" and thus irreducible into concise physical laws or mathematical axioms.
