{"id":4733,"date":"2024-01-04T22:57:31","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T06:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/?p=4733"},"modified":"2024-01-04T22:57:31","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T06:57:31","slug":"godel-god-and-the-afterlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2024\/01\/04\/godel-god-and-the-afterlife\/","title":{"rendered":"G\u00f6del, God, and the Afterlife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to his amusing &#8220;proof&#8221; of the existence of God, Kurt G\u00f6del also argued for belief in an afterlife in letters written to his mother. But I don&#8217;t share the view, expressed by <a class=\"sc-2e8621ab-1 jexetL\" href=\"https:\/\/aeon.co\/users\/alexander-t-englert\">Alexander T Englert<\/a> in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/aeon.co\/essays\/kurt-godel-his-mother-and-the-argument-for-life-after-death\">this Aeon Essay,<\/a><\/em> that &#8220;because the correspondence was private, he did not feel the need to hide his true views, which he might have done in more formal academic settings and among his colleagues at\u00a0<span class=\"ld-nowrap\">the IAS&#8221;.\u00a0 On the contrary I suspect that he knew well that the arguments were not valid and just used them as a comfort for his mother to alleviate her distress &#8211; probably not at death itself but at the fact that they lived far apart and he was unwilling to travel to see her.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/aeon.co\/essays\/kurt-godel-his-mother-and-the-argument-for-life-after-death\">Kurt G\u00f6del, his mother and the argument for life after death | Aeon Essays<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to his amusing &#8220;proof&#8221; of the existence of God, Kurt G\u00f6del also argued for belief in an afterlife in letters written to his mother. But I don&#8217;t share the view, expressed by Alexander T Englert in this Aeon &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2024\/01\/04\/godel-god-and-the-afterlife\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4734,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4733\/revisions\/4734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}