Full Idea
Conscious human thought can create new axioms, which a computer cannot do.
Clarification
'Axioms' are assumptions
Gist of Idea
Consciousness can create new axioms, but computers can't do that
Source
G Edelman / G Tononi (Consciousness: matter becomes imagination [2000], Ch.17)
Book Reference
Edelman,G/Tononi,G: 'Consciousness: how matter becomes imagination' [Penguin 2000], p.214
A Reaction
A nice challenge for the artificial intelligence community! I don't understand their confidence in making this assertion. Nothing in Gödel's Theorem seems to prevent the reassignment of axioms, and Quine implies that it is an easy and trivial game.