The Dirtbag's Book Recommendation of the Day

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

Goodbye Descartes by Keith J. Devlin



"In a narrative that travels from ancient times to today, Keith Devlin shows how the concept of the mind as a logic machine developed and came to be so widely accepted. He also shows how efforts to use logic to create 'thinking machines' have failed miserably and why those failures demonstrate that no machine would ever think the way the human mind does."

I don't know if I agree with that conclusion, I just started to read it and I don't even know if the author will indeed make that argument at all. Maybe he'll qualify it as DIGITAL machines. Anyway, it's an excellent read.

By the way, I got it at an used book store for US$ 6. Die of envy. :woohoo: