Clifford Pickover (mathematical biologist) once did an interview with Godel, and a few weeks later, had a dream in which he and Godel were playing chess, and in the dream Godel swept his arm across the chessboard knocking all the pieces over. Pickover said he woke up an noted the time. Later that morning he said he was informed of Godel's passing, which happened to be the same time as his dream. Godel also believed in an afterlife (crazy?) but only if the universe rotated. It does not appear to rotate.
-----Original Message----- From: John Clark <[email protected]> To: everything-list <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, Sep 11, 2015 3:56 pm Subject: Re: Gödel's Philosophy On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 , Pierz <[email protected]> wrote: > It's amazing to me that a man of Gödel's brilliance could take the drivel of the ontological argument seriously. Did I miss something about that specious piece of sophistry? Godel wrote his ontological stuff in his later years when he went off the rails , but fortunately even at his worst he retained enough sanity to know he should not publish the thing , that came after his death . I think Godel was the greatest logician of all time but he had some very illogical ideas. Godel was always a very odd man and he got odder as he got older especially after his best friend, Albert Einstein, died in 1955 . He sealed his windows shut because he thought night air was deadly except on t he coldest days of winter when he thought somebody would try to murder hi m with poison gas, and he wore a heavy woolen coat on the hottest day of summer , Godel believed in ghosts and for unknown reasons he insisted on putting lots of cheap plastic flamingos on his front lawn. Godel disliked talking to people but if he had to he insisted they do it on the telephone even if they were just a few feet away. Godel ended up starving himself to death, he refused to eat because he thought unnamed sinister forces were trying to poison him. The great logician weighed 65 pounds when he died in 1978 from, according to the official death certificate, " lack of food brought on by paranoia " . John K Clark Other than that I'm in 87.5% agreement with him... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
