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message 1: by Erik (last edited Oct 14, 2010 09:55AM) (new)

Erik | 165 comments This chapter starts with really nice explanations about Zen. I was confused after the previous dialog, but this chapter walks through those "feelings" that Zen generates well.

The second half of this chapter discusses the solution to the MU problem from much earlier in this book. At first, this seemed like an unrelated topic to share this chapter with the Zen explanation. I think the MU was a solved in this chapter, because it is an example of using Godel number mapping to TNT. The TNT near the end of this chapter returns to the Zen feeling that started this chapter. The end of this chapter foreshadows to the "Is G a theorem of TNT, or not?" The answer to this question given at the end of this chapter feels very Zen-like.


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