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To: snarks_when_bored
This part of the course description is encouraging:

We will also spend some time on philosophical implications, or alleged philosophical implications, of the mathematical results. Roger Penrose has advanced arguments, based on Goedel and Turing's results, which he claims show that human capacities exceed those of computers. (His arguments are certainly overstated. [snip]

32 posted on 02/16/2005 7:35:46 AM PST by longshadow
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To: longshadow

Right. Grandy sounds quite sensible. Probably a fun course to have taken.


33 posted on 02/16/2005 8:00:37 AM PST by snarks_when_bored
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