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To: Alamo-Girl

Goedel also said that if we ever develop complete proofs of complete math that would prove that we are not computing machines. That would annoy the AI fans.


32 posted on 03/16/2005 11:53:38 AM PST by RightWhale (Please correct if cosmic balance requires.)
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To: RightWhale
Thank you for your reply! Lurkers interested in the point you raise might enjoy some of Penrose's books on the subject - he relies on the Incompleteness Theorems to illustrate that Artificial Intelligence is impossible.
34 posted on 03/16/2005 12:00:00 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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