Re: Artificial Philosophizing

From: Bruno Marchal <marchal.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 16:01:15 +0100

Le 08-févr.-06, à 10:36, Brent Meeker a écrit :

> Jef Allbright wrote:
>> On 2/7/06, daddycaylor.domain.name.hidden <daddycaylor.domain.name.hidden.com> wrote:
>>>>> So Bruno says that:
>>>>> a) "I am a machine."
>>>>> b) "...no man can grasp all aspect of man"
>> A and b above both make sense to me.
>>>>> Jef and Brent say that we are machines
>>>>> who (that?) philosophize.
>> I'll agree that was implied by my statement.
>>> I suggest we start out by concentrating on the fact that Brent and
>>> Jef
>>> don't agree with Bruno's b) above.
>> Note that I would in fact agree with both a and b above.
>
> So do I.


... and note that the coherence of taking simultaneously both a and b
above is provided by the incompleteness results (Godel, ...) which can
be summarized by "... no machine can grasp all aspect of machine".

Bruno

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