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From: myers@uwvax.ARPA (Jeff Myers)
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Subject: Re: mysticism revisited
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OK, I'll play devil's advocate in the intuition vs. rationality debate;
I did the same with a rather thick-header prof as a freshman.

Arguments postulating that intuition is merely speedy, subconscious rationality
is essentially founded in a presumposition (sp?) that the mind is simply an
incredibly complex machine.  I.e., with a sufficient knowledge of how neurons
work, DNA, ad infinitum, we could design a Turing machine which would perform
in the same manner as a given human brain.

At this point in human knowledge, we must take one or the other side of the
issue essentially on faith.

Jeff Myers@uwvax