pdf23ds comments on Normal Cryonics - Less Wrong

58 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 19 January 2010 07:08PM

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Comment author: pdf23ds 21 January 2010 07:59:45AM 1 point [-]

His "proof" that human brains are hypercomputers based on applying Godel's incompleteness theorem to human mathematical reasoning, however, missed the obvious loophole: Godel's theorem only applies to consistent systems, and human reasoning is anything but consistent!

I thought the obvious loophole was that brains aren't formal systems.

Comment author: CronoDAS 21 January 2010 08:40:22AM 1 point [-]

If you can simulate them in a Turing machine, then they might as well be.