Monday, July 31, 2006

The Emperor's New Mind

It has been a week since I bought and started reading "The Emperor's New Mind" by Roger Penrose. And I am still into the 2nd chapter. At this point, I have read about Strong-AI, Chinese Room, Algorithms and Turing machines.

It is pretty convoluted stuff but I hope to finish it somehow. The title was suggested by themanwhowrote.

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Current Music : Naina/Omkara

Comments:
I just finished the first chapter. Havent had much time to read further.

But good that you are noting down all the points here. This seems to be a good way to read such books.

btw, do you know that it is difficult to find a book on Israel these days. It seems there exists some kind of regulation on sales of books on Israel. I was curious to check out a book on Moshe Dayan (Israel's first defense minister) and this is what I was told.
 
I picked up the book after a conversation with the man, but saw that it was not exactly the stuff that I like to unwind with on a lazy Sunday afternoon, so bought some fiction instead.
 
I haven't had chance to read any of him yet. Is it difficult to digest?

tmww: I have read Moshe Dayan in Marathi, not sure if you were looking for the same. It would be unfortunate not to get that book.
 
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