godel's theorem

1.Prove that the following phrase is wrong. “If a logical system is consistent, it cannot be complete.” Proof: Choose as a logical system the system consisting of: 1. a coin, 2. a lifeform on earth whose purpose is to flip the coin and try to guess which side the coin ends up facing the...

The arithmetic of the title is trivial when given a commensurate look: believer vs. believer = 2 dead believers. (Change to plural and if you can't count to millions, the result will remain a secret to you.) But the arithmetic rules change w.r.t. the time, and these days, it is possible to wage...

What has Gödel's Theorem got to do with Lifegazer? Well, it's directly related to something which appears on the website I linked to in the other thread about neutral monism: http://www.metafysica.nl/holism/implicate_order.html This is extremely important. It is why your unfounded and...

I've heard this term used quite a bit, but I dont know what it means. Could someone explain it in laymens terms? Oh, and are there any completely wooey uses for these incompletely theorems?

Even a bit of pure mathematics with no empirical content whatsoever can be fodder for pseudoscientists... actually, anything they've every heard of can be fodder for pseudoscientists, so long as they didn't understand it. And it's easy not to understand Goedel's theorem --- especially if you're...

http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/CDMTCS/chaitin/ this page seems really interesting. Does anybody know about his Omega?