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references g-h
Topic:
Godel's incompleteness theorem
Topic:
Liar's paradox and Russell's paradox
Topic:
chaotic behavior
Group:
digital communication
Topic:
parameter passing by message
Topic:
unique numeric names as surrogates
Group:
artificial intelligence
Topic:
thought is computational
Topic:
what is a number
Topic:
kinds of numbers
Topic:
metaphysics and epistemology
Topic:
self reference
Topic:
self-regulating systems

Reference

Hofstadter, Douglas R., Godel, Escher, Bach; an Eternal Golden Braid, New York, Basic Books, 1979. Google

Quotations
18 ;;Quote: Godel proved that provability is a weaker notion than truth no matter what axiomatic system is involved
21 ;;Quote: the following sentence is false; the preceding sentence is true
101 ;;Quote: a formal system is complete if every true statement that can be expressed in the system is a theorem of the system
137 ;;Quote: gives an erratic recursion, i.e., chaos can be produced by an orderly statement
166 ;;Quote: every message has a frame saying this is a message, an implicit, outer message on how to decode the message (implicit), and a meaning
264 ;;Quote: a Godel numbering defines a number isomorphism for any formal system; typographic rules are arithmetic
272 ;;Quote: the Godel sentence G, if it were a true theorem, would state "G is not a theorem"
358 ;;Quote: AI assumes that one can explain the high-level traffic of symbol activations in its own terms, without neural events
447 ;;Quote: informal description of Godel's string
465 ;;Quote: Godel's string is equivalent to "I can not be proved in the formal system"
449 ;;Quote: a Godel number is a name for a string
559 ;;Quote: every aspect of thinking is a high-level description of a system governed by simple, even formal rules
709 ;;Quote: the emergent phenomena in our brains is a kind of Strange Loop where the top level both influences and is defined by the bottom level


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