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In the 1970s I even got to meet Kurt Gödel a few times. The king of the logicians. Gödel once told me, “The a priori is very powerful.” By this he meant that pure logic can take you farther than you might believe possible.

— Rudy Rucker The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul (2016)

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