Volume 2 No 2 (2004)
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Do Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems Set Absolute Limits on The Ability of the Brain to Express and Communicate Mental Concepts Verifiably?
Bhupinder Singh Anand1
Abstract
Classical interpretations of Gödel’s formal reasoning, and of his conclusions, implicitly
imply that mathematical languages are essentially incomplete, in the sense that the truth
of some arithmetical propositions of any formal mathematical language, under any
interpretation, is, both, non-algorithmic, and essentially unverifiable. However, a
language of general, scientific, discourse, which intends to mathematically express, and
unambiguously communicate, intuitive concepts that correspond to scientific
investigations, cannot allow its mathematical propositions to be interpreted
ambiguously. Such a language must, therefore, define mathematical truth verifiably. We
consider a constructive interpretation of classical, Tarskian, truth, and of Gödel’s
reasoning, under which any formal system of Peano Arithmetic - classically accepted as
the foundation of all our mathematical languages - is verifiably complete in the above
sense. We show how some paradoxical concepts of Quantum mechanics can, then, be
expressed, and interpreted, naturally under a constructive definition of mathematical
truth.
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