From: Ben Goertzel (ben@goertzel.org)
Date: Tue Oct 19 2004 - 20:58:52 MDT
Eli:
> Leaving aside other
> qualms I have about the Gödel Machine, it appears to me that for
> the Gödel
> Machine to execute a change that switches to a new theorem-prover or
> proof-verifier, the Gödel Machine must prove that if the proof-verifier
> accepts P, then P.
Hmmm... I haven't read that paper for a while, but my intuitive response is
that you're asking the Godel machine to do more than it needs to do.
Doesn't it just have to prove that:
"If the proof verifier accepts P, then either P or the old proof-verifier
would have accepted P"
or something like that?
Apologies if this answer is off-target, it's a hasty one...
-- Ben G
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