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From: costin@cogsci.EDU (Dan Costin)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Emperor's New Mind
Keywords: Penrose, AI, physics
Message-ID: <61@cogsci.EDU>
Date: 3 Jan 90 16:04:39 GMT
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Reply-To: costin@cogsci (Dan Costin)
Organization: University of California, San Diego
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In article <851@holin.ATT.COM>, eskt@holin.ATT.COM (Eddie Tam) writes:

> Curiously, I have yet to be able to find a review of [Roger Penrose's
> "The Emperor's New Mind" in an American magazine or journal. Is this a
> case of Trans-Atlantic snobbery, or just my oversight?

There was a review of it in the Sunday New York Times Book Review section
I believe in the latter half of December.  Interesting ideas, but not
something that will revolutionize the field, I don't think (how many AI
people are there that have a good grasp of quantum mechanics, and what might
be wrong with it?).

-dan