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From: jqb@netcom.com (Jim Balter)
Subject: Re: Putnam reviews Penrose.
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Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1995 02:12:48 GMT
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In article <3ttumt$j5p@netnews.upenn.edu>,
Matthew P Wiener <weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu> wrote:
>In article <jqbDBIu1B.LL7@netcom.com>, jqb@netcom (Jim Balter) writes:
>>In article <3ts3kf$aa3@netnews.upenn.edu>,
>>Matthew P Wiener <weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu> wrote:
>>>Refering to human phenomena in terms of humans is not anthropomorphic,
>>>nor is it circular.
>
>>These are also phenomena of people who were born before 1990, so
>>perhaps we should define "seeing mathematical truths" as "the end of
>>the process of human mathematicians born before 1990 publishing their
>>results in reputable journals" (paraphrasing; I don't have the
>>original at hand).
>
>>Is this what you call "abstract thinking"?
>
>I meant what I said.
>
>No more, no less.
>
>If there was something I said that was less than clear, please identify
>it, instead of being a gibbering moron regarding your retarded mistake
>of thinking that I was anthropomorphizing human mathematicians by using
>other human phenomena to describe their "seeing".

Since the request was for a definition of "seeing mathematical truths"
in general, and in particular for robots, I can only interpret your
comments on this matter as a breakdown of your rational faculties.
-- 
<J Q B>

