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Article 5546 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly)
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Subject: Re: penrose
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>From: minsky@media.mit.edu (Marvin Minsky)
> [...]
> Are you saying that "a mistake" is better or worse than "an untoward
> assumption"? I'm complaining that *everything" in "The Emperor's New
> Book" is one or the other when it comes to its main thesis that the
> brain/mind is non-algorithmic.  But I guess I wasn't very clear here.
> [...]

I think what Penrose may have in mind is that the is something outside
the real of brain *and* *mind* that make us *the* *way* we are. Spirit
is one word that comes into my mind, Pensrose uses QM AND GR.

But there again, I have not read the book in the same detail as Minsky.
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