Re: Machines that think...
Wade Riddick (riddick@MAIL.LA.UTEXAS.EDU)
Fri, 16 May 1997 14:14:22 -0500
> Percy, I think, would bring into play the Peircean categories of
> Secondness (a binary sign system, which Deep Blue arguably possesses) and
> Thirdness (a three-way structure of understanding with an essential human
> in the loop: Kasparov). In a limited and highly structured logical system
> such as chess (despite its many possibilities), Secondness might be more
> semitotically efficient than Thirdness. But Secondness can never acquire
> Thirdness, as I understand thing. There are probably people on this list
I think this is what Percy suggests in _The Last Gentleman_ when Will
Barrett flirts with taking a college math course.
Wade Riddick