| Since this is thread of pure conjecture, I want to bring up another possibility: That the universe is godless, simple and only exists and that our intelligence is adaption to environmental pressures, purely evolutionary and is capable of creating questions without meanings, like the taste of a color, the meaning of life and so on. Our intelligence serves us well, look at all the gadget we enjoy. However, my question becomes: Is intelligence an evolutionary dead end or will it save the day in a big hurah for the space men spreading humanity across the universe and finding a way out of a dying cosmos.
Kurt Gödel demonstrated that within any given branch of mathematics, there would always be some propositions that couldn't be proven either true or false using the rules and axioms ... of that mathematical branch itself. You might be able to prove every conceivable statement about numbers within a system by going outside the system in order to come up with new rules and axioms, but by doing so you'll only create a larger system with its own unprovable statements. The implication is that all logical system of any complexity are, by definition, incomplete; each of them contains, at any given time, more true statements than it can possibly prove according to its own defining set of rules.
Does that no describe our search for a TOE?  |