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From: cam@castle.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm)
Subject: Re: Roger Penrose's New Book (in HTML) 1.0
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In article <39vac3$ba6@news.halcyon.com> jennings@chinook.halcyon.com (James Jennings) writes:

>Perhaps Penrose is correct in claiming that a machine will never think
>like a human. No programmer could ever write code that buggy on purpose.

Fortunately we don't have to do it on purpose. Being able to do it by
accident or ineptitude is quite good enough. All we have to be able to
do is (sometimes) to recognise the utility of the serendipitous
creation. Generate and test. We no more need to be capable of
far-sighted generation than does evolution.
-- 
Chris Malcolm    cam@uk.ac.ed.aifh          +44 (0)31 650 3085
Department of Artificial Intelligence,    Edinburgh University
5 Forrest Hill, Edinburgh, EH1 2QL, UK                DoD #205
"The mind reigns, but does not govern" -- Paul Valery
