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Penrose-Lucas argument en · PROPN

Etymology

Named after philosophers John Lucas and Roger Penrose.

Meanings

  1. An argument based on Gödel's incompleteness theorem, suggesting that the human mind cannot be computed on a Turing machine that works on Peano arithmetic because the latter cannot see the truth value of its Gödel sentence, while a human mind can.

Forms

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the Penrose-Lucas argument canonical lexicographic
Lucas-Penrose argument alternative lexicographic

Hypernyms

argument