Saturday, September 29, 2007

The Cambridge Quintet by John L. Casti

A fictional account of a dinner at Cambridge with Turing, Haldane, Schroedinger, Snow, and Wittgenstein, about the possibility of computer intelligence and language. Mostly between Turing and Wittgenstein. Much talk about language and consciousness and meaning. Fairly interesting but pretty inconclusive. Epilogue is really quite helpful.

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