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psychoceramics: Re: grudge match of the decade: Moravec vs Penrose
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- Subject: psychoceramics: Re: grudge match of the decade: Moravec vs Penrose
- From: Tom Easton <teaston @ acadia.net>
- Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 10:24:48 -0400 (EDT)
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At 10:17 PM 4/21/97 +1000, Nikolai wrote:
>
>'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.
>
That's about the way I felt about it. ;)
Tom