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From: pindor@gpu.utcc.utoronto.ca (Andrzej Pindor)
Subject: Re: Penrose and Searle (was Re: Roger Penrose's fixed ideas)
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In article <786821552snz@michaels.demon.co.uk>,
Rodney York <books@michaels.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>...........
>We tend to regard ourselves as the lords of creation, capable of understanding
>anything.
>
>There may well be areas and concepts (which may be open, in principle, to some
>higher intelligences) which we humans are physiologically not capable of
>compassing.
>
>And there could be areas of perception (and thought?) which do not develop
>without stimuli which are, in fact, absent from our world.
>
All very true. This is why claims that categories we perceive the reality
with have something _absolute_ about them are just an expression of human
arrogance. And this is where AIs have a potential of letting us interact
with the reality in ways which we couldn't do without them. This is a vision
which Hans Moravec promulgates in "Mind Children".         

>Best wishes,
>Rodney York
>The Online Bookshop

Andrzej
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Andrzej Pindor                        The foolish reject what they see and 
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pindor@gpu.utcc.utoronto.ca                           Huang Po
