AI and the Thinking Clinician
What can artificial intelligence do in clinical medicine — and what can it never do? This series examines the promises, limits, and ethical stakes of AI in medicine, written from inside the consultation room by a practicing physician.
Blog Series 2: Gödel's Theorem Proves Why AI Medical Diagnosis Will Always Have Fatal Flaws
Gödel’s Incompleteness and Its Impact on AI Diagnostics In 1931, Kurt Gödel upended formal logic with his Incompleteness Theorems, revealing...
THE SHIP OF THESEUS AND THE FUTURE OF HUMAN IDENTITY
Why an Ancient Paradox Now Decides What Makes Us Human in the Age of AI I. The Paradox in Simple Language Imagine the ancient ship of Thes...
Blog Series 3: Turing’s Paradox: How AI Diagnostic Bias Risks Patient Care
“True intelligence involves flexibility and fallibility, not unerring correctness.” — Adapted from Alan Turing Introduction: Trusting the Ma...
Why Logic Still Matters in the Age of AI
Artificial intelligence can now diagnose faster than we ever could.But only logic—structured, sceptical, humane—can make sense of it.In medi...
Human vs. Machine Cognition: Brains, Minds, and Meaning
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming the way we work, think, and heal. From medical diagnoses to language generation, machines appea...
Why AI Can’t Understand Patient Symptoms: Wittgenstein’s Philosophy Explains Medical AI Failures
“If a lion could speak, we could not understand him.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein When Language Fails Machines Medical Artificial Intelligence...
Blog Series 1: Why AI Fails at Early Disease Detection
AI can scan a thousand scans in seconds. But it can’t hear a patient say, ‘Doctor, I just don’t feel right.’ That’s where medicine still bel...