"Penrose-Lucas argument" meaning in English

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Proper name

Forms: the Penrose-Lucas argument [canonical]
Etymology: Named after philosopher John Lucas and mathematician Roger Penrose. Head templates: {{en-prop|def=1}} the Penrose-Lucas argument
  1. An argument based on Gödel's incompleteness theorem, suggesting that the human mind cannot be computed on a Turing machine that works on Peano arithmetic because the latter cannot see the truth value of its Gödel sentence, while a human mind can. Synonyms: Lucas-Penrose argument

Alternative forms

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