Student Name: Dennis Lo
From Cherniak’s story, we know that people are start falling into comas
without having any physical damage. They all have the same symptom, which they
have read certain piece of information from the computer. Later, they all have
a ‘mental’ stroke and fall into coma. As I can see, this is similar to a
machine that is when it tries to process a question that it cannot understand,
or something that involve a contradiction of its truth value and the truth
value of itself, such as the Godel’s sentence. It will causes the machines
crash. From this story, the people are representing the machines; the “riddle”
is same as the Gödel’s question, which the people cannot avoid or skip with
it. Or we can imagine our entire world being the machine, which is controlled
by the Godel system. The machine is always trying to escape from the riddle or
just by adding rules to help it to deal with the Gödel’s question, but it does
not help the machine to understand the riddle.
Student Name: Dennis Lo
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