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Summary of Gödel’s Argument for Immortality


Kurt Gödel (1906–1978) was the foremost logician of the twentieth century. He is best known for his incompleteness theorems and contributions to set theory, changing the course of mathematics, logic, and computer science. In addition, he advanced an argument for personal immortality which I reconstruct—in order to give it the best chance of success—as follows: Continue reading Summary of Gödel’s Argument for Immortality →