The Limits of Understanding

The Limits of Understanding

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Gregory Chaitin on the incompleteness theorem.

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Gregory Chaitin on the incompleteness theorem.

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The Limits of Understanding

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

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