SFI’s community lectures offer a window into the Institute’s research to understand the common patterns in physical, computational, biological, and social complex systems that underlie the most profound issues facing science and society today. This year’s lecture series focuses on human individual and social behavior. Rebecca Goldstein thinks like a philosopher and writes like a novelist, which is not surprising because she is both. Support for SFI's 2012 lecture series is provided by Los Alamos National Bank. Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Godel by Rebecca Goldstein. This lecture was generously underwritten by Dr. Goldstein is a recent SFI Miller Scholar, a research associate at Harvard University, and author of both fiction and nonfiction works, including The Mind-Body Problem, Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel, and Thirty-Six Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction. Read the article in the Santa Fe New Mexican (April 8, 2012) In an SFI Community Lecture on April 9 in Santa Fe, author Rebecca Newberger Goldstein considered intuition as an essential part of our moral and philosophical thinking, described how mathematicians of the last century tried to eliminate all appeals to intuitions, and showed how Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems can be viewed as proof that we can't get along without them. Intuitions vary from person to person, and even those that seem least assailable sometimes lead us astray.
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