Kurt Gödel’s Religious Worldview: An Immanent Personal Conception

DOKULIL, Miloš. Kurt Gödel’s Religious Worldview: An Immanent Personal Conception. Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies. 2020, roč. 32, 1/2, s. 95-118. ISSN 0890-0132. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.5840/jis2020321/26.

Základní údaje

• Originální název: Kurt Gödel’s Religious Worldview: An Immanent Personal Conception
• Autoři: DOKULIL, Miloš (203 Česká republika, garant, domácí).
• Vydání: Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, 2020, 0890-0132.

Další údaje

• Originální jazyk: angličtina
• Typ výsledku: Článek v odborném periodiku
• Obor: 60301 Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
• Stát vydavatele: Spojené státy
• Utajení: není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
• WWW: URL
• Kód RIV: RIV/00216224:14330/20:00118531
• Organizační jednotka: Fakulta informatiky
• Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/jis2020321/26
• Klíčová slova anglicky: Kurt Gödel; immanent personal conception
• Příznaky: Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Anotace

Kurt Gödel is well-known as a first-class logician-mathematician, but less well for his proof of God. Godel's Incompleteness Theorems proved that all formal axiomatic systems have inherent limitations. He created also “Gödel numbering,” a special code for writing mathematical formulae. His proof of God was presented logically on the basis of modal axioms. Gödel was sure of God’s personal influence and believed in eternal life of the human soul. He was more than only a “Baptized Lutheran” whose belief was “theistic.” Yet Gödel’s individual assurance of God’s “personal existence“ cannot be viably presented on an interpersonal basis being a “first-person“ type of knowledge and, thus, outside interpersonal conditions for an objective construction beyond a “verbal proof.“ There are categories of reality not easily translatable without a shift in their meaning or a simplifying reduction. The metaphor of an analogy between the brain and its mind as against a computer’s hard- and software does not adequately consider the polarity between the message and its meaning. Gödel’s God was not a modally conceived formal-logical abbreviation of something unattainable for the believer, but a personal Security which does not require any proof.