Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 16:44:32 06/03/02
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On June 03, 2002 at 19:07:52, Rolf Tueschen wrote: >On June 03, 2002 at 18:15:31, Roy Eassa wrote: > >> >>Rolf, I mostly understand what you have been saying. Sometimes your posts are >>so lengthy that the key idea gets lost. Here's a key quote from you: >> >> >>"I do not want to eliminate all technical or programming tricks... The only >>thing I want to exclude is the rather primitive copying and pasting of complete >>results from human chess." >> >> >>This is IMHO a reasonable stance. Some people may have a different opinion than >>yours (I'm not sure of my own view on this topic), but your statement does NOT >>seem unreasonable to me. > >Roy, honestly, I wouldn't be happy if people followed me out of my good >propaganda or stuff like that. You are right, I write a little reflection and I >expect or hope someone clever enough to understand the main points. The reason? >I have found out, that people would never ever like to change their opinions >because they make life easier, because thinking seems to be real hard working. >So I wait until someone discovers by his own thinking what could be hidden in my >postings. That is a more Socratian method. I'm not that perfect already to hide >my points in aphorisms. Thank you very much however! > >Rolf Tueschen > Of course it is often just human nature to stick to one's opinion regardless of new evidence or good arguments to the contrary. I do it sometimes. I'm sure there are occasions when you do it. It may partly be due to the "hard working" that is thinking, but there are probably ego issues involved too. Anyway, I may not agree with all your points but I do recognize that they have been deeply considered and thoughtfully presented by somebody with very significant intellectual abilities. :-)
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