Incompleteness for stably consistent formal systems

21 Jan 2020  ·  Yasha Savelyev ·

We first partly develop a mathematical notion of stable consistency intended to reflect the actual consistency property of human beings. Then we give a generalization of the first and second G\"odel incompleteness theorem to stably $1,2$-consistent formal systems. Our argument in particular re-proves the original incompleteness theorems from first principles, using Turing machine language to (computably) construct our "G\"odel sentence" directly, in particular we do not use the diagonal lemma, nor any meta-logic, with the proof naturally formalizable in set theory. In practice such a stably consistent formal system could be meant to represent the mathematical output of humanity evolving in time, so that the above gives a formalization of a famous disjunction of G\"odel, obstructing computability of intelligence.

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