J.R Lucas attempts to illustrate that machines and minds are very different.
Godel’s incompleteness Theorem just focuses on J.R Lucas’ study. The theorem
tells us that machines can do simple arithmetic and logic operation, but they
always have to follow the formulae that human being already gave them and they
are not able to produce new formulae. Since the builder of machines is human
being, the function of machines is that perform tasks based on a given set of
rules. Why machines can not be the owner of themselves? Just because they are
not creative and they don’t have freedom thought. The other way round, human
being has random thought and the minds works in a much more open-ended system.
So the current belief is that machines can not replicate the human being and
there is a fundamental difference between machines and minds.
YuanYuan Chen
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