dennis ,
i agree with first half of ur explanation with reference to mind and machine
and the possibilities of similarities between them. but i dont agree with
'world as machine..controlled by godel's sytem' theory coz its seems like a
far cry from reality as well as what we are actually discussing.
mary anne vincent
>From: michelin@yorku.ca
>To: math3500@mathstat.yorku.ca
>Subject: The Riddle of the Universe and Its Solution
>Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 14:36:15 -0500
>
>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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