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From: kort@hounx.UUCP (B.KORT)
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Subject: Re: A halting problem
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Date: Sun, 12-Jan-86 22:16:58 EST
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The mind runs many infinite loops.  One of them
is analagous to the READ-EVAL-PRINT loop of LISP.
It's the TAKE-IN-SENSORY-INPUT--PROCESS-IT--RESPOND loop.
Another loop is the SEARCH-FOR-TRUTH/BEAUTY/GOD/HOLY-GRAIL/NIRVANA
loop (substitute whatever symbolic name comes closest to naming
the object of your desire).  This is an NP-Complete problem, in
that we don't have an algorithmic solution to it.

Actually, USENET provides one of the most efficient mechanisms
ever devised for solving that problem...

Hey!  Anybody out there know where I can find THE-OBJECT-OF-MY-DESIRE?


				-- Barry Kort
				...ihnp4!houxm!hounx!kort

	A door opens.  You are entering another dementia.
	The dementia of the mind.