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Penrose's argument for computational irreducibility of cognition

``... insights that are available to human mathematicians - indeed, to anyone who can think logically with understanding and imagination - lie beyond anything that can be formalized as a set of rules [performed computationally]''

Roger Penrose in Shadows of the Mind, 1994.

The basis for this assertion is argued for by Penrose using Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems.





David T J Liley
Thu Apr 9 12:39:27 EST 1998