I agree with the ideas that Dennis Lo stated. He said the "riddle" is like
the Godel sentence, and i agree with that. The Cherniak story backs up Lucas
and the arguements he presented in Minds, Machines and Godel. In Lucas'
arguement it states that there is a formula which a machine is always
incapable of producing to be true, but the mind can always see that it is
true. The Cherniak story can represent the arguement that mind is nothing like
the machine and machines can never be like the mind. The story could take
place in a world where minds are similar to machines and it shows what can
happen if it were true. Since humans are similar to machines in this story,
they are incapable of processing the "riddle". Like Dennis said, the people do
many things to avoid the riddle, which is like producing more rules; but as
stated by Lucas, there will always be another formula which the system cannot
prove.
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