Is Materialism Falsifiable? Yes, Easily.
Neurologist Steven Novella is sure that materialism is not falsifiable by scienceContrary to Steven Novella's claims, cosmological singularities refute materialism. Kurt Gödel can explain
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Gödel and God: A Surprising History
A thought-provoking account of master logician Gödel’s largely unknown proof of the existence of GodIn an unsanitized, politically incorrect (but factual) history, Selmer Bringsjord talks about how the tormented genius Kurt Gödel took up a quest that dated back a thousand years to prove the existence of God by formal logic. His original version didn’t quite work but his editor’s version passed an important logic test.
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Kurt Gödel’s Proof of the Existence of God
Kurt Gödel toppled a tall tower of mathematical reasoning with publication of his work showing no formal system of math could be both complete and consistent. He also gave a mathematical proof of the existence of God. Is Gödel’s proof valid? Robert J. Marks and Dr. Selmer Bringsjord discuss mathematics, Kurt Gödel, and the ontological argument. Show Notes 01:05 | Read More ›
Why Our Minds Can’t Really Be Uploaded to Computers
The basic problem is that human minds aren’t “computable.” Peter and Jane are not bits and bytesThe underlying problem with creating immortality by uploading our minds to computers is that people are conscious and even the most sophisticated foreseeable computers are not. And we are not at all sure what consciousness even IS.
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Math Shows Why the Mind Is Not Just a Formula
The Liar’s Paradox shows that even mathematics cannot be reduced to a fixed set of axiomsGödel’s discovery brought back a sense of wonder to mathematics and to the rest of human knowledge. His incompleteness theorem underlies the fact that human investigation can never exhaust all that can be known. Every discovery builds a path to a new discovery.
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Faith Is the Most Fundamental of the Mathematical Tools
An early twentieth century clash of giants showed that even mathematics depends on some unprovable assumptionsDavid Hilbert wanted all mathematics to be proved by logical steps. Kurt Gödel showed that no axiomatic system could be complete and consistent at the same time.
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Futurism Doesn’t Learn from Past Experience
Technological success stories cannot be extrapolated into an indefinite futureThe limits of science can be as instructive as the discoveries. If science someday proved that computer systems could never reproduce some aspect of mind, we'd have learned something important about the nature of mind.
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The Mind Can’t Be Just a Computer
Gödel demonstrated that fact and Turing tried to live with itKurt Gödel (1906–1978) proved that there are truths in mathematical logic that lie outside mathematical logic, which means that the mind cannot be understood simply as a computer.
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