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A Simple Explanation of Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem

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I think Leo's video on Gödel's incompleteness theorem does a good job at considering the implications of this theorem, but it doesn't explain the theorem itself very well. Watch this if you are confused by that video like I was.

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Aaah classic, you eliminate paradox by establishing a limit for yourself to view that paradox. typical rationalist move.

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You eliminate paradox by banned self-reference.

Which is of course the whole game science plays: do science but no self-reflection.


You are God. You are Truth. You are Love. You are Infinity.

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The end of that video blew my mind.


Intrinsic joy is revealed in the marriage of meaning and being.

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These mathematicians actually needed a logician to basically just write "unprovable but true statement" on a card to understand there are things that are true but unprovable?

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14 minutes ago, AtheisticNonduality said:

These mathematicians actually needed a logician to basically just write "unprovable but true statement" on a card to understand there are things that are true but unprovable?

They needed a logician to somewhat recognize it. If someone without such a status had told them, who knows if they had just shrugged it off.

Not to deny someone without that education would have unlikely found it.

Edited by Windappreciator

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