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Subject: Re: New Penrose Book - Poll
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In-Reply-To: jrthomson@aol.com's message of 17 Mar 1995 09:09:40 -0500
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 1995 20:19:16 GMT
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J R Thomson writes:
> For those who haven't read the new Penrose book (or don't care to), he
> lists 4 categories of opinion  more or less as follows:

> A:...
> B:...
> C:...
> D:...

E: There is some inherently "non-computable" component connected with
human intelligence due to some, as yet undiscovered, physical process
(possibly quantum mechanical).  Once this unknown process is understood,
we will discover (or invent) another inherently "non-computable" component 
in order to be able to continue to deny the possibility of artificial
intelligence,

I would put Penrose in group E.
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John Hasler uunet!hasler!root
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin USA
