Penrose-Lucas argument
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Etymology[edit]
Named after philosopher John Lucas and mathematician Roger Penrose.
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- An argument based on Gödel's incompleteness theorem, suggesting that the human mind cannot be computed on a Turing machine that works on Peano arithmetic because the latter cannot see the truth value of its Gödel sentence, while a human mind can.