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Paul Nurse's Introduction.
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The Limits of Understanding
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- 1 Paul Nurse's Introduction.
- 2 Who is Kurt Godel?
- 3 Participant Introductions.
- 4 What was the intellectual environment Godel was living in?
- 5 Godel's beliefs in Platonism.
- 6 Gregory Chaitin on the incompleteness theorem.
- 7 Platonism vs. Formalism.
- 8 The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the world.
- 9 The world is built out of mathematics... what else would you make it out of?
- 10 Mathematics and consciousness.
- 11 What are the problems of building a machine that has consciousness?
- 12 If math isn't a formal system then what is it?
- 13 Explaining math with simple computer programs.
- 14 Its hard to find good math.
