Math and Logic Cannot Create Minds
Then Godel’s theorem set similar limits to mathematics, the formal language of science. Mathematicians used to think that their language had some special inherent trueness that derived from the laws of logic. Now we know that what we call ‘reason’ is just an arbitrary game. It’s not special, in the way we thought it was.
Michael Crichton • Jurassic Park: A Novel
Berkeley, as we have seen, thinks that there are logical reasons proving that only minds and mental events can exist. This view, on other grounds, is also held by Hegel and his followers. I believe this to be a complete mistake. Such a statement as “there was a time before life existed on this planet,” whether true or false, cannot be condemned on
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A wide experience of actual intellectual affairs will lead most people to the conclusion that logic is mainly valuable as a weapon wherewith to exterminate logicians.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
Sally Davies • Feminists never bought the idea of a mind set free from its body | Aeon Essays
dailynous.com • Philosophers on GPT-3 (
“What I cannot create, I do not understand.”)