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Article 5333 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: sarima@tdatirv.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
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Subject: Re: penrose
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Date: 29 Apr 92 19:05:57 GMT
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In article <zlsiida.57@fs1.mcc.ac.uk> zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd) writes:
|I'm just reading Penrose's book, The Emperor's New Mind, in which he claims
|computers will never think the way we do.
|Is he off his trolley or what?
| 
Well, let's see ...

His physics is good, even if somewhat non-standard (but he openly
admits that, so we know exactly where  he is comong from).

His mathematics, per se, is excellent.

His biology is atrocious, and in some cases plain wrong.
His treatment of introspective evidence is naive - being based on the
assumption that introspection is reliable; an unproven assumption at best.

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