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>From: G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly)
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Subject: Re: Human intelligence vs. Machine intelligence
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Date: 8 Oct 92 10:00:18 GMT
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Chris Malcolm writes:
 > In article <BvM75v.AEF@eis.calstate.edu> wstein@eis.calstate.edu (William K. Stein) writes:
 > >rob@apache.dtcc.edu (Rob Jarman) writes:
 > 
 > >> I'm looking for information or references on human intelligence vs.
 > >> machine intelligence for a research paper. Could any of you help?
 > 
 > >  Read Penrose's,  "The Emporer's New Mind".  All the rest is nonesense.
 > 
 > In "The Mind's I" by Hofstadter and Dennet you will find many
 > interesting essays on this topic, including Turing's famous "Computing
 > Machinery and Intelligence" paper, one of the first, and still one of
 > the best, ever written on this topic. You will find a number of papers
 > written by both experts in artificial intelligence, and serious
 > critics of aritificla intelligence, in "Mind Design" by John
 > Haugeland.
 > 
 > Penrose, although a famous physicist, can't be counted as an expert in
 > this field.
 > [....]

(Roger) Penose trained in projective geometry (pure mathematics). He
applied his ideas into the field of applied mathematics (theoretical
physics) and invented twistor theory for application in General
Relativity.

When I spoke to him a few years ago (after he gave a talk on "TENM"),
he was *not* aware of non-deterministic methods lilke simulated
annealing and genetic algorithms.

I am sure that his aware of these now.

Gordon.
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