Alan N. Shapiro, Technologist and Futurist

Blog and text archive about media theory, science fiction theory, future design, social choreography, Computer Science 2.0, new media art, robots and androids, Star Trek, The Prisoner, Jean Baudrillard, Albert Camus, Michel Foucault, and Marshall McLuhan

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Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem in Java Code

May 26th, 2010 in Category: Alexis Clancy, Georg Cantor, Humanities Informatics, Kurt Gödel, Mathematics, Time Travel

An important coding project of the New Computer Science is to program a Universal Incompleteness Generator in Java. The program will generate undecidable arithmetical statements from axioms. A major first step towards achieving this has been taken by Stephen Lee of Tachyos.org.
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The Superfast Clock

May 1st, 2010 in Category: Alexis Clancy, Georg Cantor, Humanities Informatics, Mathematics, Pierre Curie

The Superfast Clock - together with the Metronome Clock, the Elastic Clock, and the Role of the User - opens up what we call the Seven Space or the Gödel Incompleteness Space. We need a coded class for an Incompleteness Channel. It carries the information regarding dimension-hopping and symmetry breaking.