The question of what it means to think is never far from my focus -- and is particularly on my mind during these days that the computer Watson is competing on the TV game show, Jeopardy. Here is a poem I like a lot -- "New Math" by Cole Swensen -- in which the poet (writing more than 20 years ago) considers the limits of computation (and whether it could aid persons unable to recognize faces).
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Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Thinking about Thinking
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