Workbook Edits for “Making Good Decisions”: Author Profile: Kurt Gödel for Volume 1 – Part I: Our Shared Humanity
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For returning readers and subscribers, this post presents the Author Profile for Kurt Gödel from the workbook for Vol. 1 – Part I: Our Shared Humanity.
- See below the downloadable pdf file for this two-page section, as well as a summary description of the section.
Volume 1 – Part I: Author Profile: Kurt Gödel
- Author profiles use the summary version of the Template for Reading Research Papers (See workbook for Volume 1 – Part V) to present the history, and meaning of the life and work of key authors selected from the more than 140 authors mentioned in Volume 1 – Part I: Our Shared Humanity.
This Author Profile present the life and work of Kurt Gödel (1906 - 1978). Focusing on the foundations of mathematics, Gödel found “Feet of Clay” that he could not fix. Among many connections with other authors, this makes a connection to Alfred Korzybski observation that “The Map is not the Territory”, and John Boyd’s observation about the “Heat Death” of closed-systems because validation, energy, and growth must come from the outside.
The logical foundations of top-down, scaled-up solutions based on the Logic & Statistics Program carry the seeds of their own destruction when applied to the “Large World” where “Embodied Intelligence” (The “Fast and Frugal” Heuristics Program) beats disembodied “Rational” solutions in making good individual, business, and investment decisions.
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