Gödel Meets Carnap: A Prototypical Discourse on Science and Religion
Modern science, based on the laws of physics, claims validity for all events in space and time. However, it also reveals its own limitations, such as the indeterminacy of quantum physics, the limits of decidability, and, presumably, limits of decodability of the mind-brain relationship. At the philo...
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Kurt Gödel
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