GODEL'S GOD-LIKE ESSENCE

In the 1970s, the great logician Kurt Godel proposed an argument for the existence of what he called "Godlikeness". At the time, Godel wished to rescue David Hilbert's program, which he knew was impossible because of his own incompleteness theorems. Godel named his new program "Godel's Program". In this paper I argue that the cumulative hierarchy of sets V could play the role of Godlikeness, meaning that V could play the role of Godel's central monad. Thus, proving the existence of Godlikeness actually means proving the existence of the cumulative hierarchy of sets V. According to Godel there is a connection between epistemology, ontology and formal systems. If something exists, we will someday have the ability to recognize it. Therefore, it is reasonable to conclude that the ability to know the complete set of axioms of the cumulative hierarchy of sets V, which I attempt to show is the God-like essence, is an argument in favor of the success of Godel's Program.