Goedel, the Mind, and Epistemology

    Abstract:

   Roger Penrose (and many years earlier, the Oxford philosopher John Lucas)
have made famous the claim that Goedel's Theorem shows that the human mind is
not equivalent to a computer. This talk will explain why this is totally
misguided; however, as the talk will also explain, the Theorem does have great
epistemological significance, and, perhaps in this way, also does have
significance for psychology of quite a different kind than Lucas and Penrose
were looking for.