“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Greg Chaitin, The Unknowable

He is a mathematician in the lineage of Cantor and Gödel who pushes Turing's halting problem solution to a limit he called Ω. It's a number that can't be known.

1 comment:

Robert Jackson said...

Glad you've mentioned Chaitin's work, him and Wolfram are working from a very similar page.