Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 16:57:46 06/03/02
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On June 03, 2002 at 19:44:32, Roy Eassa wrote: >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. :-) Do never forget the ego and the fun and all that. I like communication and a bit more direct version than by producing books for anonymous readers. The internet is for me like heaven. :) Rolf Tueschen
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