Jess DeLong's work has appeared in Colorado Review, Mid-American Review, American Letters and Commentary, Indiana Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, and Typo, as well as the anthologies Best New Poets 2011 and Feast: Poetry and Recipes for a Full Seating at Dinner. My chapbooks, Tearings, and Other Poems and Earthwards, were released by Curly Head Press.
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Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems, a Misunderstanding. x1 is an algorithm, a computer software; x2 is the mind.
1.
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2.
x1 is excellent at achieving checkmate;
there is no practical algorithm for checkmate in chess;
therefore: the explanation of x1’s talents cannot be that x1 is running an algorithm.
x2 can understand;
there is no feasible algorithm for understanding;
therefore: the system that natural selection selected, the whatever-it-is that accounts for understanding,
(x2) cannot be an algorithm.
