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Article #989Re: I think logic is obsolete today . . . . . .
From: JusUK
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 22:00
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 22:00
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"William Elliot" <marsh@privacy.net> wrote in message news:20041121212752.O34106@agora.rdrop.com... > On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, George Dance wrote: > > mallet_riveter@yahoo.co.in (Hans-Marc Olsen) wrote in message > > > > > We have computers and they can do all the logic stuff for us ... > > > > Once they can program and replace themselves, I suppose. But I bet > > that even then a few stick-in-the-muds will still be using their > > brains. > > > Already there's programs that produce programs, select the best of a bunch > and even discover and fix their bugs. So what, people have been learning > and replacing themselves for eons and now you're suggesting we no longer > do that naturally but let the computers have all the fun? > > I can see it now, in 2050 the students finding even sex education too hard > for their media washed brains to pass, lament why do we have to learn sex > when medical labs can produce test tube babies? > > Sex is obsolete, we have medical clinics, > they can do all that sex stuff for us. ;-) I thought basic quantifier logic was non-mechanically decidable. Basically because some branches of the truth trees are infinite.
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