Author: Mark Ryan
Date: 01:52:56 04/26/00
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On April 25, 2000 at 18:58:05, Fernando Villegas wrote: >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 Hi: "Maelzel's Chess Player" by Edgar Allen Poe can be found at http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/POE/maelzel.html Cheers, Mark
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