What does it mean for something to be unknowable? Is creativity non-computable? Do all things have a level of consciousness? Jump into today’s podcast, where Robert J. Marks continues his discussion with Gregory Chaitin about mathematical theory and philosophy.

Show Notes

• 00:23 | Introducing Gregory Chaitin
• 00:40 | What is unknowability?
• 06:07 | Does non-computable mean unknowable?
• 09:43 | A simple explanation
• 21:34 | Is creativity non-computable?
• 25:55 | Defining creativity
• 28:19 | Panpsychism

Additional Resources

• Gregory Chaitin’s Website
• The Unknowable by Gregory Chaitin
• Unravelling Complexity: The Life and Work of Gregory Chaitin, edited by Shyam Wuppuluri and Francisco Antonio Doria
• Mathematica
• Paul Erdős, Hungarian mathematician
• Chaitin’s Constant
• Jack Schwartz, American mathematician
• Roger Penrose, British mathematician and Nobel Prize winner
• The Emperor’s New Mind by Roger Penrose
• Shadows of the Mind by Roger Penrose
• Stephen Hawking, British theoretical physicist
• Selmer Bringsjord, engineer and computer scientist
• The Lovelace Test, a discussion between Robert J. Marks and Selmer Bringsjord at Mind Matters
• Giulio Tononi, neuroscientist and psychiatrist
• Christof Koch, German-American neuroscientist
• David J. Chalmers, philosopher and cognitive scientist
• The Conscious Mind by David J. Chalmers
• Panpsychism
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’s monads
• “Consciousness and Information, Classical Quantum or Algorithmic?” by Gregory Chaitin
• Bit Bang. La nascita della filosofia digitale by Giuseppe O. Longo (translation: Bit Bang: The birth of digital philosophy)

(Portions of this transcript have been altered to clarify the content).