I’m probably not competent to look at the details, but their paper sets off my BS detector by its reference to Godel’s incompleteness theorem and its notion of “non-algorithmic understanding”. These are both reminiscent of the Lucas-Penrose idea that consciousness requires uncomputability and that humans have some sort of magical ability to determine the truth-values of Godel sentences. I think the conventional view, sometimes known as the Church-Turing thesis, is that the universe is in fact computable.
I’m probably not competent to look at the details, but their paper sets off my BS detector by its reference to Godel’s incompleteness theorem and its notion of “non-algorithmic understanding”. These are both reminiscent of the Lucas-Penrose idea that consciousness requires uncomputability and that humans have some sort of magical ability to determine the truth-values of Godel sentences. I think the conventional view, sometimes known as the Church-Turing thesis, is that the universe is in fact computable.