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Comment by drivebyhooting

I feel like Penrose presupposes the human mind is non computable.

Perhaps he and other true geniuses can understand things transcendently. Not so for me. My thoughts are serialized and obviously countable.

And in any case: any kind of theorem or idea communicated to another mathematician needs to be serialized into language which would make it computable. So I’m not convinced I could be convinced without a computable proof.

And finally just like computable numbers are dense in the reals, maybe computable thoughts are dense in transcendence.

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