Gödel spent the second half of his life absorbed by philosophy. Despite his experiences in Europe, he believed that “the world is rational.” He was an optimist and a theist; and although he thought that “religions are for the most part bad,” he insisted that “religion [itself] is not.” A deity was at the centre of his metaphysics. He entertained speculations about the afterlife, arguing that “the world in which we live is not the only one in which we shall live or have lived.” He dismissed the Darwinian theory of evolution and declared flatly that “materialism was false.” He was a mathematical Platonist, arguing with boldness that the human intellect is capable of perceiving pure mathematical abstractions, just as the human senses are capable of grasping material objects.

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