From: Steve Witham (sw@tiac.net)
Date: Wed Apr 09 1997 - 20:58:59 MDT
>On Tue, 1 Apr 1997, Dan Hook wrote:
>
>> The problem here is that human emotion and cognition are largely
>> mysterious, at least to the individual. Any computer program is going to
>> be obviously deterministic.
Reminds me of one of my favorite poems:
Slice a visage to build
A visage. A puzzle to its owner.
By Racter, an obviously deterministic computer program. But its point is
well taken: being deterministic does not eliminate one's mystery to
oneself--far from it. Goedel and Turing said the same thing
if less
mysteriously.
--Steve
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