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Imagination and Consciousness

In Our Time

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The Power of Ambiguity

Professor Alexander: I think old-fashioned or not Turing's theorem applies to everything we call a computer today. And that means there's logic in it, and that it has to be precise. But brains are interesting because they can pattern recognize in the face of ambiguity,. That's not a false antithesis. He asks Margaret if she were born simply, would say, first-order predicate logic and algebra which she imagined are Wallace Stevens poem.

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