You can skip Godel's update of Anselm's ontological argument for God, and instead consider Godel's two incompleteness theorems as a proof that logical positivism took a fundamentally wrong to philosophy of science.
I do encourage people to study at least a little philosophy of science, because we need to have some notion of "justified true belief" in order to make sense of papers like Why Most Published Research Findings Are False and counterarguments like this one.
You could just skip philosophy and go straight to mathematical logic and statistics. That way you'll know enough recursion theory to parse Godel's proofs.
math is one of 3 aspects of science, physics and experimentation will tell you more about reality than math and pure logic. There are limits to these axioms, entire books dedicated to proving 1+1=2. There are infinities greater than infinities we dont know what problems are solvable or would just take a really long time. N vs NP. Universe stops at a plank length, math doesn't.
pepeshadilay ago
You can skip Godel's update of Anselm's ontological argument for God, and instead consider Godel's two incompleteness theorems as a proof that logical positivism took a fundamentally wrong to philosophy of science.
I do encourage people to study at least a little philosophy of science, because we need to have some notion of "justified true belief" in order to make sense of papers like Why Most Published Research Findings Are False and counterarguments like this one.
pepeshadilay ago
You could just skip philosophy and go straight to mathematical logic and statistics. That way you'll know enough recursion theory to parse Godel's proofs.
dwhipwhipplez ago
math is one of 3 aspects of science, physics and experimentation will tell you more about reality than math and pure logic. There are limits to these axioms, entire books dedicated to proving 1+1=2. There are infinities greater than infinities we dont know what problems are solvable or would just take a really long time. N vs NP. Universe stops at a plank length, math doesn't.
Conspirologist ago
With all due respect to Godel, I prefer the Intelligent Design theory.
100100011001 ago
What does Gödel have do to with intelligent design?
Conspirologist ago
God.
No6 ago
Stick with the classics like Freud, motherfuckers.
VoutGuy ago
Classics... SMH
Conspirologist ago
Freud's profession was neuro-pathologist. Educate yourself.
No6 ago
It was a joke about his obsession with incest, get a sense of humor.