Re: AUDA Page

2009-03-02 Thread Bruno Marchal

Thanks, Günther.

Bruno



On 01 Mar 2009, at 23:34, Günther Greindl wrote:


 Hello,

 have incorporated most of Bruno's change wishes:

 http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list/web/auda

 Best Wishes,
 Günther


 

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Re: AUDA Page

2009-03-01 Thread Günther Greindl

Hello,

have incorporated most of Bruno's change wishes:

http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list/web/auda

Best Wishes,
Günther


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Re: AUDA Page

2009-02-23 Thread Bruno Marchal

Hi Günther,

Le 22-févr.-09, à 23:16, Günther Greindl a écrit :

 will incorporate your changes as soon as time permits :-)

Take all your time. I am myself rather busy. But thanks for telling me. 
Actually I take this AUDA page as an opportunity for thinking about the 
best books on Gödel's incompleteness theorems. I could send a list of 
books with short comments, perhaps in April. All good books on 
incompleteness and provability logic can be helpful on the AUDA, 
given that the AUDA is entirely build on incompleteness.
Right now I think about the book inexhaustibility by Torkel Franzen, 
which is very good, at least for the mathematically inclined reader.  
We have already talk about Franzen's little book on the abuse of 
Gödel's theorems. Quite useful too, especially for non-logicians.

Bruno


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Re: AUDA Page

2009-02-22 Thread Günther Greindl

Hi Bruno,

will incorporate your changes as soon as time permits :-)

Best Wishes,
Günther

Bruno Marchal wrote:
 Hi Günther,
 
 Nice work Günther. Now my comment is longer than I wish. I really would 
 insist on one change. See (**) below.
 
 On 16 Feb 2009, at 22:54, Günther Greindl wrote:
 

 Hi guys,

 I finally got around to writing the AUDA references page:

 http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list/web/auda

 Comments welcome.
 
 
 I would separate better the introduction to (general) mathematical logic ...
 
 Enderton (you mention it)
 Mendelson (one of the best introduction to mathematical logic)
 Perhaps the Podniek web page
 The book by Boolos and Jeffrey (and Burgess for the last edition), and 
 the book by Epstein and Carnielli
 Kleene's 1952 book on Metamathematics.
 
 ...from the  general book on computability (but those books are really 
 needed already for the UDA, actually for the seventh step of UDA): so I 
 would put them there: I am thinking about
 
 Cutland
 Rogers
 
 And then come the most fundamental books on the logic of self-reference 
 and/or provability logic per se (those are books on G and G*). This is 
 part of AUDA:
 
 First the main initial original papers : Davis 1965 (contain Gödel 1931, 
 Church, Post, Kleene, Rosser). Then the textbook on self-reference 
 (provability) logic:
 
 Boolos 1979 
 Boolos 1993
 Smorynski 1985
 Smullyan's Forever undecided (a recreative introduction to the modal 
 logic G).
 
 And then you can add some books on (general) modal logic (but they are 
 not needed because the book on provability logic reintroduces the modal 
 logic). You did already mentioned :
 
 Chellas (excellent)
 But the new edition of Hugues and Creswel is an easier one, and is very 
 good too imo.
 
 The relation between modal logic and provability is a bit like tensor 
 calculus and general relativity. Modal logic is but a tool, provabilty 
 logic (sometimes called self-reference logics) is the object of study. 
 It is part of AUDA. AUDA really begins with Gödel's famous 1931 paper, 
 and the very special modal logic G and G*, found by Solovay, is a 
 machinery encapsulating all the incompleteness phenomenon.
 
 
 (**) If you want make just one little change in the page:  in your 
 sentence For modal logic these are further guides:  I would make clear 
 you are referring to the modal logic G and G*, that is the logic of 
 self-reference. Or just put provability or self-reference instead of 
 modal.
 
 I would not put the Solovay paper in guide on modal logic. It is 
 really the seminal paper on the self-reference logics.
 
 The modal logic G and G* are really the logic of provability or 
 self-reference on which AUDA is based.
 
 I am aware we touch advanced matter, which presupposes a good 
 understanding of mathematical logic, or metamathematics, something which 
 is usually well known only by professional mathematical logicians. Even 
 a genius like Penrose got Gödel's wrong. By the way, Hofstadter got 
 Gödel's right in his book Gödel, Escher, Back. He is correct on 
 computationalism too, but he missed the matter problem, and even the 
 universal machine, the first person indetermincay and its reversal 
 consequences.
 
 I have realized that some of my students have still a problem with 
 completeness and incompleteness. In part due to the bad choice in the 
 vocabulary (yet standard).
 For example the theory PA (Peano Arithmetic) is complete in the sense of 
 Gödel 1930, and incomplete in the sense of Gödel 1931.
 
 Completeness: (PA proves A) is equivalent with (A is true in all models 
 of PA). This makes Dt equivalent with there is a reality: the basic 
 theological bet.
 Incompleteness: there are true arithmetical statement (= true in the 
 standard model of PA) which are not provable by PA.
 
 Don't hesitate to ask any question. Of course UDA is *the* argument. 
 AUDA is far more difficult and is needed to pursue the concrete 
 derivation of the physical laws (among all hypostases). UDA shows that 
 physics is a branch of computationalist self-reference logic. AUDA 
 begins the concrete derivation of physics from the existing 
 self-reference logic (thanks to Gödel, Löb, Solovay).
 
 Note that for a time i have believed that the hypostases were all 
 collapsing. If this would have been the case, the comp-physics would 
 have been reduced to classical logic, and what we call physics would 
 have been a sort of comp-geography. The SWE would have been a local truth.
 
 Ask any question, we are in deep water. People like Tegmark and 
 Schmidhuber are on the right track concerning the ontology. The 
 intersection of Tegmark work and Schmidhuber's work gives the correct 
 minimal ontology: the mathematical elementary truth (on numbers or 
 mathematical digital machine). My (older) work derives this from comp 
 and  the imperative of the mind body problem, which both Schmidhuber and 
 Tegmark seems not willing to take into account: they presuppose some 
 

Re: AUDA Page

2009-02-18 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi Günther,

Nice work Günther. Now my comment is longer than I wish. I really  
would insist on one change. See (**) below.

On 16 Feb 2009, at 22:54, Günther Greindl wrote:


 Hi guys,

 I finally got around to writing the AUDA references page:

 http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list/web/auda

 Comments welcome.


I would separate better the introduction to (general) mathematical  
logic ...

Enderton (you mention it)
Mendelson (one of the best introduction to mathematical logic)
Perhaps the Podniek web page
The book by Boolos and Jeffrey (and Burgess for the last edition), and  
the book by Epstein and Carnielli
Kleene's 1952 book on Metamathematics.

...from the  general book on computability (but those books are really  
needed already for the UDA, actually for the seventh step of UDA): so  
I would put them there: I am thinking about

Cutland
Rogers

And then come the most fundamental books on the logic of self- 
reference and/or provability logic per se (those are books on G and  
G*). This is part of AUDA:

First the main initial original papers : Davis 1965 (contain Gödel  
1931, Church, Post, Kleene, Rosser). Then the textbook on self- 
reference (provability) logic:

Boolos 1979
Boolos 1993
Smorynski 1985
Smullyan's Forever undecided (a recreative introduction to the modal  
logic G).

And then you can add some books on (general) modal logic (but they are  
not needed because the book on provability logic reintroduces the  
modal logic). You did already mentioned :

Chellas (excellent)
But the new edition of Hugues and Creswel is an easier one, and is  
very good too imo.

The relation between modal logic and provability is a bit like tensor  
calculus and general relativity. Modal logic is but a tool, provabilty  
logic (sometimes called self-reference logics) is the object of study.  
It is part of AUDA. AUDA really begins with Gödel's famous 1931  
paper, and the very special modal logic G and G*, found by Solovay, is  
a machinery encapsulating all the incompleteness phenomenon.


(**) If you want make just one little change in the page:  in your  
sentence For modal logic these are further guides:  I would make  
clear you are referring to the modal logic G and G*, that is the logic  
of self-reference. Or just put provability or self-reference  
instead of modal.

I would not put the Solovay paper in guide on modal logic. It is  
really the seminal paper on the self-reference logics.

The modal logic G and G* are really the logic of provability or self- 
reference on which AUDA is based.

I am aware we touch advanced matter, which presupposes a good  
understanding of mathematical logic, or metamathematics, something  
which is usually well known only by professional mathematical  
logicians. Even a genius like Penrose got Gödel's wrong. By the way,  
Hofstadter got Gödel's right in his book Gödel, Escher, Back. He is  
correct on computationalism too, but he missed the matter problem,  
and even the universal machine, the first person indetermincay and its  
reversal consequences.

I have realized that some of my students have still a problem with  
completeness and incompleteness. In part due to the bad choice in the  
vocabulary (yet standard).
For example the theory PA (Peano Arithmetic) is complete in the sense  
of Gödel 1930, and incomplete in the sense of Gödel 1931.

Completeness: (PA proves A) is equivalent with (A is true in all  
models of PA). This makes Dt equivalent with there is a reality:  
the basic theological bet.
Incompleteness: there are true arithmetical statement (= true in the  
standard model of PA) which are not provable by PA.

Don't hesitate to ask any question. Of course UDA is *the* argument.  
AUDA is far more difficult and is needed to pursue the concrete  
derivation of the physical laws (among all hypostases). UDA shows that  
physics is a branch of computationalist self-reference logic. AUDA  
begins the concrete derivation of physics from the existing self- 
reference logic (thanks to Gödel, Löb, Solovay).

Note that for a time i have believed that the hypostases were all  
collapsing. If this would have been the case, the comp-physics would  
have been reduced to classical logic, and what we call physics would  
have been a sort of comp-geography. The SWE would have been a local  
truth.

Ask any question, we are in deep water. People like Tegmark and  
Schmidhuber are on the right track concerning the ontology. The  
intersection of Tegmark work and Schmidhuber's work gives the  
correct minimal ontology: the mathematical elementary truth (on  
numbers or mathematical digital machine). My (older) work derives this  
from comp and  the imperative of the mind body problem, which both  
Schmidhuber and Tegmark seems not willing to take into account: they  
presuppose some mind:machine identity which the UDA shows impossible  
to maintain.

I cpntinue to think that for a non mathematician, a thorough  
understanding of the UDA is needed before 

AUDA Page

2009-02-16 Thread Günther Greindl

Hi guys,

I finally got around to writing the AUDA references page:

http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list/web/auda

Comments welcome.

Cheers,
Günther

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