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From: kellyfj@cs.tcd.ie (Frank Kelly)
Subject: Quit Slagging Penrose
Message-ID: <1994Oct27.115326.13522@cs.tcd.ie>
Organization: Computer Science, Trinity College Dublin
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 1994 11:53:26 GMT
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Hello,
	I'd like to agree with the person who proposed that certain
people should stop criticising Penrose' new book. I've read the
"Emperor's New Mind" and although it is not a great book (it doesn't
propose testable solutions to problems in AI) it is better than
a lot of works out there (I won't name names, except on request :-))

Lately I have read a few articles (e.g. WCNN'93 & 94) which have
research results which SEEM to indicate that maybe Penrose was indeed
right.

However I would edge more towards Gerald Edelman's thinking (that
Quantum Mechanics etc. are not really necessary), nevertheless, with Penrose'
track record in the Physics field I would not immediately down any of
suggestions before there was *real* research done to verify/refute his
hypotheses. 


If Penrose' new book is half as good as the "Emperor's New Mind" then
I'm going to buy it. He may be wrong but I doubt if he would say things
unless he had quite a bit of evidence to back himself up, unlike some of
the "critics" in this group.

Comments invited.

--Frank


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