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H: All right, all right... and the limitation of human intelligence?

M: Mr Gödel is telling you that the theorem limits formal systems. So you see your intelligence as a formal system, as a machine?

H (pompously): Indeed. I have the impression that everything I do ought to be done by a machine, which could moreover speak just as well in my place.

G: From where I am, it is difficult to tell whether you exist or whether you are the virtual creation of a GAT - a Generator of Automatic Truisms. Intelligence does not exist without error, perhaps even without obstinacy in error; but who would take the risk of giving a computer that kind of psychology? As for the incompleteness theorem, it certainly did not foresee bad-tempered theories...

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Gödel's Theorem, or an Evening with Mr Homais Jean-Yves Girard

Translation: https://files.catbox.moe/kac0wu.pdf

Original: https://perso.ens-lyon.fr/pierre.lescanne/ENSEIGNEMENT/LOGIQ...