Your post gave ME the hilarity (your word): sane - I like to use: "normal" and "crazy" as "abnormal" in my central-EU distorted vocabulary - paraphrases your statement: The everage of the majority of people are abnormal, while the exceptional, the abnormal, are the normal. Which of course is counter-sense (nonsense?). We have the wrong normative?
John M (not so sane) --- George Levy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > Godel's result, known as Godel's second > incompleteness theorem, is > > that no consistent machine can prove its own > consistency: > > > > IF M is consistent then M cannot prove > its consistency > > > Bruno, > > After I read your email, we had a gathering of > family and friends, and > my head being full of the subject of this post. I > wanted to test the > idea of Godel's second incompleteness theorem on the > average people just > to see how they would respond. I found the right > place in the discussion > to insert the paraphrase: > > If I am sane, it is impossible to know for sure that > I am sane. > > This povoked some hilarity, especially with my kids > (young adults) who > probably view me as some kind of nutty professor. > While this statement > is mathematically true, it was not considered > serious by the people I > was talking with. I guess that the average human has > no doubt about his > own sanity.(But my kids had some doubts about mine) > One way to prove > that you are crazy is to assert that you are sane. > This means that the > average human is crazy! :-) > > George > > > >
