Re: Smullyan Shmullyan, give me a real example

From: George Levy <glevy.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 20:09:32 -0800

Bruno Marchal wrote:

> <>
> Le 25-mars-06, à 00:51, George Levy a écrit :
>
> Smullyan's white knigth had the mission to teach me about the logic of G
> and G*. Sorry, he failed.
>
>
>All right, but this is just because he miss Church Thesis and Comp. His
>purpose actually is just to introduce you to Godel and Lob theorems,
>not to computer science. The heart of the matter is that mathematical
>systems (machines, angels, whatever) cannot escape the diagonalisation
>lemma, and so life for them is like the life of those reasoners
>travelling on fairy knight Knave island with curious self-referential
>question.
>With comp *we* cannot escape those diagonal propositions.
>
>
>
I am looking forward to examples involving people being
diagonalized...hmmm Hilbert did come up with a thought experiment with
an infinite number of people lodged in a hotel.... actually we want to
go further than that and assume an infinite number of selves in the
many-world....Once upon many times (Ils etaient des fois...), there were
several princesses...they looked into self referential magic
mirrors....and they lived ever after.

>>I would like someone to come up with an extreme adventure story like
>>the
>>travelling twin, Schroedinger's cat, or Tegmark's suicide experiment to
>>illustrate G and G*. For example this story would describe a close
>>brush
>>with death.. It would create a paradox by juxtaposing 1) classical or
>>common sense logic assuming a single world,
>>
>>
>
>
>
> I think you miss the diagonalization
>notion. I will work on that.
>
I am looking forward to being diagonalized. I hope it won't hurt too much.

>I will give you "real examples", but don't
>throw out FU to quickly. \
>
>
OK.

George


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