Improved machines

A beefed-up machine can recognise the truth of the Gödel sentence. Such a machine defeats Lucas's argument, because it shows that a formal system can evade Lucas's Gödelizing ability.


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Artificial Intelligence
Are thinking computers mathematically possible? [7]
No: computers are limited by Gödel's theorems
Improved machines
Connectionist machine may evade Gödelization
Highly complex machine may not be Gödelizable
Inductive machines immune to Gödelization
Ingenious machines could evade the Gödel argument
Self-referential machines
The Gödelian insight has already been formalised
Theorems show limitations of machine thought
Gödel shows machines can't be fully conscious
Argument from Gödel's theorem is dialectical
Mathematical insight is non-algorithmic
Gödel limits formal systems not machine implementations
The problem of consistency
Lucas may be a Turing machine
Lucas tricks machines into contradicting themselves
Some people cannot understand Gödel's theorem
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