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Subject: Re: Deception and Enchantment in the Life of the Automaton Chess Player

Author: Fernando Villegas

Date: 15:58:05 04/25/00

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Very interesting, but even more is the work by Poe to demostrate the
imposibility of the automaton being a real machine playing chess. Inm fact what
he probes is the imposibility to conceive modern comuter as mechanisms, but of
coyurse he did not know about computers...I have always considered the pice by
Poe as a master work of pure, deuctive reasoning scarcely aided by empirical
facts. The works is named "The Maelzel chess Player" or something of the
sort....
Fernando



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