The Riddle of Universe and Its Solution by D Hofstadter from Mind’s I

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Date: Tue Dec 03 2002 - 13:10:49 EST

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    Wesley Lam
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    This reading support Lucas's statement “The formula is unprovable in this
    system” is a true statement with falsity. This will make human mind start
    thinking about the statement if it is true and false in a loop. For example,
    consider the following statement, “Thiss sentence contains threee errors”. The
    first reaction of the reader may say it is false because it only contains two
    errors. But then they will realize that the statement may mean that the errors
    that containing these two errors. This is that kind of loop thinking that human
    minds can do, but a machine is unable to do so. Also human can assert anything
    is true whenever they believe it is true, but machine cannot do the same. They
    cannot assert something for their own good and provide a right outcome.

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