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From: tedrick@ernie.BERKELEY.EDU (Tom Tedrick)
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Subject: Re: Sc--nce Attack (really on minds and computers)
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Date: Sat, 26-Oct-85 14:19:09 EST
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Thanks very much for the responses about the mind-turing machine
problem. They were very interesting and educational. The most
interesting was from our distinguished mathematical colleague
from Amsterdam. I have the highest respect for the Amsterdam
mathematicians (having gone through some of the Lenstras' papers
and heard their talks, for example) so I will defer to his superior
knowledge, and only thank him for taking the time to reply.

I suspect some of the responses were from people not sufficiently
familar with the subject to have an informed opinion, but most
were quite good. I didn't appreciate the responses that treated
the problem as a joke, or subjected me to personal ridicule.
For lack of time I am unable to respond to all the messages I received.

I should mention that I saw a film where Godel said something
to the effect that either mathematics was inconsistent, or
there was some mysterious, not formally explainable process
going on in the human mind. Anyway that was my understanding
of what he said ...

  -Tom