Monday, January 02, 2006

The Non Computability Of Consciousness Prevents The Axiomatization Of Law

Given that someone commits a "crime" based on a widely held or even narrow definition of an illegal act what is to be the punishment?It should deter someone from doing it again in yet not be so harsh as to harden their resolve to do it or something anti social again.Of course since we are dealing with conscious beings now non computability of outcomes makes it's presence felt and complicates matters greatly even to the point of unsolvability.Any number of people when given the same punishment for the same crime will respond in different ways from very positive to very negative.That is the punishment will have effects ranging from the desired to something exactly the opposite depending on the individual.The only property which can solve most punishment problems is wisdom which takes consciousnes which is non computable.All ethical problems require consciousness for solutions since they spring from consciousness.The inability to recognize that has led people to endless and forever fruitless debates about what should be done about crime and bad behavior when there is no single answer.This of course negates any religious solutions since they try to axiomatize that which is non axiomatizable and as such negate their whole framework and expose their incompleteness and betray their iron age beginnings.A true theory of punishment will harness and amplify universal laws so what is natural and what is man made are complimentary and reinforcing but since a mathematical theory of karma will be non computable likewise so must man made laws be.