[FOM] The Lucas-Penrose Thesis

mjmurphy 4mjmu at rogers.com
Sat Oct 7 06:55:28 EDT 2006


Maybe a naive  question.  The Lucas-Penrose thesis turns upon Lucas 
producing an appropriate Godel sentence under certain circumstances.  And a 
Turing Machine is not able to do this?  Is it really that hard to program a 
computer such that it can "produce" a Godel sentence upon request?  And if 
the computer can be programmed to do this, has it proven that it too is not 
a machine?

Cheers,

M.J.Murphy 




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