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Artificial Intelligence, Gödelian Arguments Against

  1. Peter Slezak

Published Online: 15 JAN 2006

DOI: 10.1002/0470018860.s00158

Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science

Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science

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Slezak, P. 2006. Artificial Intelligence, Gödelian Arguments Against. Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science.

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  1. University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

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  1. Published Online: 15 JAN 2006

Gödel's incompleteness theorem says that there are arithmetical truths expressible in certain formal systems which cannot be proven within those systems. This result reveals certain inherent limitations on what is computable, which, according to some theorists, show that minds are not machines because they are not subject to the same limitations.

Keywords: artificial intelligence; algorithms; Gödel's theorem; mind; mechanism