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From: smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: The Ignorant assumption
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Date: 11 Sep 88 00:13:40 GMT
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>>Science is philosophy on how the universe can be understood. If some aspect
>>if the universe cannot be understood in this way, then science is incomplete.
>
>This seems to be saying that "science" _ought_ to be able to explain
>everything.  If this is so, then I think we just have to put up with
>science being "incomplete".

Shades of Goedel.

If the universe is one big Turing Machine, unprovable/undecidable things
do not exist in reality. Since science only deals with realities (are thoughts
real?), it would be complete and still not have to explain transcendental
phenomon.