Author: Manuel Monasterio
Date: 09:05:11 11/23/99
This note comes as the second one, the other was posted yesterday. I would like to add two observations regarding this issue. Pondering a little more over the subject, I think that: 1) A strong grandmaster may be capable of truly profiting from the chess programs. Let’s say for example Kasparov (a player thais is known for his use of computers for his preparation), he can use the strong chess engines available to help him to get out of the route. To come out with new moves and plans. The fact is that you have to be a really strong player to truly discriminate from useful computer plans from useless ones, a lesser player may get confuse. 2) Chess programs are very interesting in the way they approach the game, they always begin approaching the positions anew. The first great player in chess history to do this systematically was Alekhine. One of his major assets was this capability of disengage himself from the previous history of the game approaching each position as a “just born” entity. (much food for thought here for those interested on Zen Buddhism or J.Krishnamurti discourse). The biggest single liability of the human mind in terms of evolutionaty creativity is our memory-association function (very useful and perhaps indispensable in so many fields of life but an obstacle for breaking the limits through new frontiers ). Memory and reminiscenses are constantly popping out into consciousness contaminating our perception with past images, and interfering with a true and fresh contact with here-now reality. In this area computers can help us a lot to understand and make a better use of mind functions. Been my area of expertise that of Psychology,cognitive processes and Human Resources, I have pointed before in some scientific papers that technology at large is nothing else than the “instrumentalization of human consciousness”. The dicotomy that some people sees in computers and machines in relation to men is an ilussion. Personally I love computers and it is obvious that we can learn a lot of human mind functions studying this “artificial reflection” of ourselves, that is in reality what computers are. Manuel Monasterio
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