Re: Is Mankind Smart Enough?
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Clearly No. Gödel’s incompleteness theorem shows that any universe model we construct will not cover everything. I really don’t think there is room for debate.
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I am not an expert on Gödel’s incompleteness theorem, but I am fairly sure that it is not far reaching enough to make such statements. Certainly, euclidean geometry is a complete theory, so complete theories do exist. The existence of complete theories is enough to allow for the possibility that there may exist a complete final theory of the universe (although it could not be based on a recursive scheme I believe).
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