Gödel, Escher, Bach - Lecture 1: Part 5 of 7

During the summer of 2007, Gödel, Escher, Bach was recorded for OpenCourseWare.

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[mrsean22795]

@FetrovskyGoogle No that is incorrect. i believe you are refering to rule 2 to get your multiple i's to get 3 i's to get your u. However using rule 2 you would get MI -> MII -> MIIII (then apply rule 3) -> MIU. I believe that is what your were thinking

[VarialProductions]

Woooh! Formal Systems!

[Nufrifin]

It seems to me as you can never get amount of I's divisible by 3, which means that you can never get rid of I's in the statement.

[docerex]

@BLinDaTbESt Some of the most intellectually difficult things to do in problem solving and understanding is to abandon direct and easy paths (because they are obvious, and hence everyone else has tried them to no avail) and follow one's conviction that there is a path, but it will involve 100's of miles of detours. I've been banging my head over GEB for many years, but each year there is more clarity. Don't give up :)

[BLinDaTbESt]

How is all of this math helping to explain the surfacing of consciousness/self-awareness from atoms :( All I see is fabrications of explanations of the physical world made by a collection of consciousnesses D: Or maybe I'm just too tired to care. It is 4am and I'm dozing off. Gn youtube.

[FetrovskyGoogle]

What about the Mu puzzle? From my angle it looks like M -> Mi -> Mii -> Miii -> Mu

Right?

[UterusSpacecraft]

Offering $20 to solve the Mu puzzle to people who are obviously unfamiliar is so cruel! Please put all of these lectures up!

[SurvivingTheHorizon]

telling a bunch of students they can make 20$ haha did he expect them to pay attention after that... good vids

[ugiflezet2000]

I think there is something wrong with this video

it's not playing

could be a temporary thing with youtube...

[bucles2000]

Speak about a language does not make you metalanguage philosopher or speak about a paint does not make you a metapaint or painter. Speak about something is just a reference. But if your comments are brilliant, then you should became "meta".