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Subject: Re: Minsky's new article (was: Roger Penrose's new book)
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sean@mpi-sb.mpg.de (Sean Matthews) writes:

>Ignoring the impression that this article leaves about Minsky's critical
>intelligence (which is a personal problem for him), it can't help AI
>researchers looking for funding if this sort of glaring silliness appears
>in a forum like Scientific American.

		
	"Originally you were clay. From being mineral, you 
	became vegetable. From vegetable, you became animal,
	and from animal, man. During these periods, man did
	not know where he was going, but we was being taken
	on a long journey nevertheless. And you have to go
	through a hundred different worlds yet."
		
			Rumi, circa 1200 CE


	Don't you believe in evolution?  Is it not possible
	for humans in the next few hundred or few thousand
	years to start tinkering with their own evolution?
	They've already started tinkering with the evolution
	of vegetables and animals.

	It's a lot easier for me to believe that these things
	will happen than to believe the naysayers like Penrose.
	

--
						-- Mark---
....we must realize that the infinite in the sense of an infinite totality, 
where we still find it used in deductive methods, is an illusion. Hilbert,1925
