# Ultimate Cognition à la Gödel

@article{Schmidhuber2009UltimateC,
title={Ultimate Cognition {\a} la G{\"o}del},
author={J{\"u}rgen Schmidhuber},
journal={Cognitive Computation},
year={2009},
volume={1},
pages={177-193}
}`
• J. Schmidhuber
• Published 5 March 2009
• Computer Science
• Cognitive Computation
Abstract“All life is problem solving,” said Popper. To deal with arbitrary problems in arbitrary environments, an ultimate cognitive agent should use its limited hardware in the “best” and “most efficient” possible way. Can we formally nail down this informal statement, and derive a mathematically rigorous blueprint of ultimate cognition? Yes, we can, using Kurt Gödel’s celebrated self-reference trick of 1931 in a new way. Gödel exhibited the limits of mathematics and computation by creating a…
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