Toss K into the truth machine's mouth and watch the fun begin! Fun, that is, if you enjoy seeing valuable machinery destroy itself. The truth machine can't say that K is false, since then K would be true— in that it predicts that the ...
A dynamic exploration of infinity In Infinity and the Mind, Rudy Rucker leads an excursion to that stretch of the universe he calls the “Mindscape,” where he explores infinity in all its forms: potential and actual, mathematical and ...
Infinity and the Mind: The Science and Philosophy of the Infinite
Infinity and the Mind: The Science and Philosophy of the Infinite
... infinity of fingers and indicates that you have infinity fingers plus one more. . I + 1 could not exist, since it would have to be bigger than I , which was assumed to be the largest possible number. But whenever a number .1: exists, then x ...