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From: tony@hdl.ie (Tony Veale)
Subject: Re: Roger Penrose's new book
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Alan Kilian (kilian@cray.com) wrote:
: Roger Penrose has a new book out that is the sequel to
: _The Emperor's New Mind_ and it's REAL hard.

: It's got everything from real Truing machines to quantum physics
: to brain structure in it.

: I would like to get a reading group together to meet once a
: week and discuss this book.

: Is anyone interested?

:                             -Alan Kilian

: -- 
:  -Alan Kilian    kilian@cray.com 612.683.5499 (Work)
:   "Avoid cliches like the plague." 
:   _How to write and publish a scientific paper_ Robert A. Day

--

Yup, the chump's new book is called "Shadows of the Mind",  published
by Oxford Press. He goes back into his silly theories of quantum-mechanical
foundations of consciousness, and expounds much the same populist tripe
that made his first book so financially successful.

The funniest thing is that he opens the book with a chapter called

"1. Why we need New Physics to understand the Mind"

... and he has the gall to call A.I. the "Emperor's new Clothes" ?
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Tony Veale                                             Tel: +353-1-6798911
Hitachi Dublin Laboratory, O'Reilly Institute,         Fax: +353-1-6798926
Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland.                    e-mail: tony@hdl.ie

"Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent - that is what Wisdom wants us
to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior."

						Fred Nietzsche,
						Zarathustra, book I
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