Mathematical Undecidability, Quantum Nonlocality and the Question of the Existence of God

Mathematical Undecidability, Quantum Nonlocality and the Question of the Existence of God edited by A. Driessen, Antoine Suarez.

On January 22, 1990, the late John Bell held at CERN (European Laboratory for Particle Physics), Geneva a seminar organized by the Center of Quantum Philosophy, that at this time was an association of scientists interested in the interpretation of quantum mechanics. In this seminar Bell presented on...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Driessen, A. (Editor), Suarez, Antoine (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1997.
Edition:1st ed. 1997.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Philosophy and science.
Quantum physics.
Mathematical logic.
Religion.
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Table of Contents:
  • I: Mathematics and Undecidability
  • 1. How can or should the recent developments in mathematics influence the philosophy of mathematics?
  • 2. Number and randomness: algorithmic information theory — new results on the foundations of mathematics
  • 3. Meaning, reality and algorithms: implications of the Turing theorem
  • 4. The limits of mathematical reasoning: in arithmetic there will always be unsolved solvable problems
  • 5. Mathematics: a pointer to an independent realityPenrose’s interpretation of the Gödel and Turing theorems
  • II: Physics and Nonlocality
  • 6. A critical approach to complexity and self organization
  • 7. Indeterminism and nonlocality
  • 8. Nonlocality and the principle of free experimentation
  • 9. Optical tests of Bell’s theorem
  • 10. Nonlocal phenomena: physical explanation and philosophical implications
  • 11. Quantum theory: a pointer to an independent reality. Adiscussion of Bernard d’Espagna’s “veiled reality”>
  • III: Science, Meta-Science and the Existence of God
  • 12. Scientism and scientific knowledge of things and God
  • 13. Physics and the mind of God
  • 14. The question of the existence of God in the book of Stephen Hawking: A brief history of time
  • 15. Final remarks: becoming aware of our fundamental limits in knowing and doing, implications for the question of the existence of God
  • Notes on Contributors.

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