In the book "The Cambridge Quintet", there was a good debate about sciences vs
humanities.It mentioned that Gadel demonstrated that the exist statements about
numbers that can never be proved or disproved by following a set of logical
rules. Yet we humans can see that such statements must necessarrily be true; we
just can't prove them to be so... There are things that the human mind can know
that can never be known by any machine.
Alan Turing admited that he had never felt that one of his machines would
actually duplicate a human brain in a differnt medium.He said his interest was
in duplicating human thought processes, not human physiology.
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