"All Cretans are liars", said Epimenides, a Cretan. But this means that his statement must be a lie too. But then it is false that Cretans are liars and the statement must be true. So what now?

In his commentary “AI, Godel and God,” John Nassivera tries to apply Kurt Godel’s “Incompleteness Theorem,” which was published in 1931, to verify the existence of God. According to Mr. Nassivera, the ...

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GENEVA, SWITZERLAND - APRIL 19: A detailed view of the blackboard with theoretical physics equations in chalk by Alberto Ramos, Theoretical Physics Fellow and visitor, Antonio Gonzalez-Arroyo from the ...

Computer scientist Steven Rudich of Carnegie Mellon and Alexander Razborov of Steklov Mathematical Institute in Moscow will share the Association for Computing Machinery’s 2007 Gödel Prize in June for ...

A time-travel romance between one of the great minds of the 20th Century, Kurt Gödel, and a lonely particle physicist, Serita Cedric, a research student working at the Large Hadron Collider in ...

We’ve been hearing a lot lately about AI (artificial intelligence). It seems it’s becoming able to do astonishing things, even touted as things beyond human capabilities. Well, everything you see on ...

Philosophy of science is often dismissed as useless by practicing scientists. From young researchers scrambling to get tenure or finish a dissertation, to industry scientists buried under a mountain ...