I'm not sure I totally agree with Mr. Tiponut.
While it is evident that there was some sort of "overload",
I think it was an "information processing overload" rather than just an
information overload.
What I mean by this specifically is that the brains of those that had
sufficient knowledge to understand the riddle went into a lapse because it
put them into some sort of paradoxical state. That is to say, they were
presented with a "godelian sentence" (that affected the human mind, of course)
and since they were not bounded by any
formal system (as Lucas suggests) their minds fell into somewhat of an infinite
loop (which students have already suggested), thus putting them into a
trance-like state.
Furthermore, I did not fully understand how Tunde or Aaron said that the
software was trying to replicate the human mind and that was the basis for the
problem/ riddle. Perhaps some elaboration, please.
-- > I do not understand, because Cherniak says that a topologist in Paris
fell into a coma and no computer/software was involved.
Quoting tiptunde@yorku.ca:
>
> Godel’s Incompleteness Theorem does suggest that there are limitations to
> human
> mind. What Cherniak might want to say with this Riddle theory is that the
> software came up with an ideal theory, the Perfect one, and humans could not
> comprehend it.
> The new theory was so huge, new and mostly implausible that was causing
> information overload in the human mind that sent people into coma without
> letting them understand the meaning of it.
> David said the brain is looking for answers, I think the brain was struck by
> the
> mass of information and could not process it, so gave up. In my opinion
> those
> were the most vulnarable who were too curious or open minded about the new
> program.
> I agree with Aaron who said that the software was trying to replicate human
> mind, its complexity became very close to it, and that caused the problem.
> About human consistency or irrationality, I do not think there was much to
> do
> with that, only maybe that humans do not give up easily. In spite of the
> fact
> that people died or went into coma previously they were still trying to find
> out
> the solution.
>
>
> Tunde Tiponut
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