Godel

[Juan Cires Martinez]

> Finally, anybody got any opinions on Kurt Godel, formal logic, artificial 
> intelligence and/or 'The Crying of Lot 49'? 

As Mr. P himself wrote in GR:

  "And yet, and yet: there is Murphy's Law to consider, that brash Irish
   proletarian restatement of Godel's Theorem -- *when everything has
   been taken care of, when nothing can go wrong, or even suprise us ...
   something will.*"

or in COL49:

  "For it was now like walking among matrices of a great digital
   computer, the zeroes and ones twinned above, hanging like balanced
   mobiles right and left, ahead, thick, maybe endless.  Behind the
   hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, 
   or only earth."

Saludos, Juan.