[JCEccles]

I heard an interesting statement on the radio the other day. I don't even remember the context but it got me thinking. Is it possible for the human brain to understand itself? Or would it have to somehow transcend itself to be able to do so?

Godel's incompleteness theorem would suggest the answer is no. It would have to transcend itself.

At the same time, Godel proved that the human mind can intuit things to be true that a computer can never prove. The Nobel Prize-winning physicist and mathemetician Roger Penrose has written extensively on the subject.

[fanfan]

Nice home page.