On 8/21/2017 4:19 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
Before Gödel, most mathematician, like Hilbert, were hoping that
with the finite and the symbolic we could justify the consistency of
the use of the infinities, but after Gödel we know that even with
the infinities we cannot circumscribe and justify the consistency of
the finite and the symbolic.
All the more reason to classify them as fiction - not part of the
really real.
OK. But then Mechanism has to be assumed false, or you too would not
exist (and I hope you believe that you exist, in a way or another).
Consistency is a attribute of propositions and logic. Whether there are
infinities that cannot be circumscribed has no relevance to my existence
or whether consciousness can be realized by a computer.
Brent
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