Godel’s worldview

• Kurt Godel’s philosophical priors were outside of the mainstream.
• They enabled him to imagine possibilities beyond the epistemic horizon of the mathematical establishment of his time.
• What if there are mathematical truths that cannot be proved?
• Georges Lemaître similarly had philosophical priors that allowed him to imagine the unimaginable to more conventional physicists:
• What if there was in fact a beginning to the universe?