--Jay
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On Fri, 22 Mar 1996, Vicki Rosenzweig wrote:
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> I'm not a mathematician, and it's been at least ten years since
> I really looked at this, but Godel's Theorem has to do with
> formal systems (specifically, those of a certain complexity:
> arithmetic is this formal, but some simple logics aren't), and
> the Universe we live in isn't (probably) a formal system.
>
> Vicki Rosenzweig
> rosenzweig@hq.acm.org
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> From: virus-owner
> To: virus
> Subject: Re: virus: Memetic evolution
> Date: Friday, March 22, 1996 9:39AM
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> On Sat, 23 Mar 1996, Mitchell Porter wrote:
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> > "There are no eternal truths" - is that an eternal truth itself?
> >
> > I've sometimes heard it said that "every scientific theory is replaced
> > eventually", but I see no reason to suppose that this will always be so.
>
> Okay, I'm really speaking out of my league here, but didn't Godel's
> Incompleteness Theorem assert something to the effect that no system of
> human thought could ever be both complete and without self-contradiction?
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> If this is the case, then I suspect that we will at least continue
> refining our scientific theories for as long as we exist.
>
> --Jay
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