Post Emil - "Creative" logic

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        Emil Post, now regarded as having anticipated both Gödel and Turing’s
      
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        respective discoveries of formal incompleteness and undecidability, tried
      
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        to incorporate Bergson’s theory of memory into the foundations of a
      
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        “creative” logic. Post argued that “incompleteness” and “undecidability,”
      
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        rather than simply presenting aporias, were the traces of the continuity of
      
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        the process of thought. Incompleteness, according to Post, represented the
      
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        “intuitive” basis by which mathematical concepts came into being. Post,
      
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        however, was only able to observe the creative at the limits of logic,
      
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        whereas from Bergson’s perspective we need to reconsider what it is we
      
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        mean by “thought” if we are to apprehend our immanence to time. The
      
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        nature of our affective duration reveals the continuous unfolding of
      
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        difference as much as its multiplicity. It is only by approaching thought in
      
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        the infinitive and re-evaluating the role of affectivity in the production of
      
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        ideas in general that we will be able to gain an intuition of process and
      
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        evolution, as much as a metaphysical basis to expression. In the end, we
      
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        can safely say that it was not the haze of mysticism which clouded
      
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        Bergson’s judgement but that philosophy for the greater part of a century
      
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        has been suffering from a severe want of sensibility.
      
      
        
      
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