psychoceramics: grudge match of the decade: Moravec vs Penrose

["Nikolai Kingsley" <nikolai @ very.net>]

>         Science fiction readers, who have seen many of these ideas
before,
> find them enchanting. Others find them terrifying, which explains some of
> the reactions Moravec receives, even from such scientific luminaries as
> Roger Penrose, who has spent a good deal of effort arguing against the
idea
> of machine intelligence.


'a good deal of effort' being Penrose's 'The Emperor's New Mind', a book
about two inches thick. and, yes, i did read it. i got the impression that
Penrose was trying to win a philosophical argument by sheer force of masses
of equations. sort of like continually hitting someone with your book and
winning because it's bigger.

:)

nikolai