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From: minsky@media.mit.edu (Marvin Minsky)
Subject: Re: Penrose's new book
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In article <pja1.16.0151A0DA@rsvl.unisys.com> pja1@rsvl.unisys.com writes:
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>Anyone interested in reading Penrose's new book should first read 
>Schroedinger's classic essay "What is Life?", Schroedinger's and Penrose's 
>views of the physico-chemical basis of biological phenomena are diametrically 
>opposed and irreconcilable. IMHO, Penrose's book smacks of obscurantism.

Could you summarize Schroedinger's conclusion toward the end of his
book.  I read it long ago.  But I remember it ending up pretty much
obscurantly, too.





