Word: humanization
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...bicentennial of the First Amendment and the nine others in the Bill of Rights that serve as the nation's soul. They form, in Senator George Mitchell's words of last week, the "most concise, the most eloquent, the most effective statement of individual liberty in all of human history." Not in 199 often turbulent years has it been deemed necessary to append any "yes, but" footnote. To do so now would do more to desecrate the flag than any misguided arsonist ever could. For without those liberties for which it stands, the Stars and Stripes would become little more...
Penrose's first major point is that the human mind can reach insights that are forever inaccessible to computers. The reason is that all digital computers operate according to algorithms, or sets of rules that prescribe how to solve problems. Yet there are problems that cannot be approached by any system of rules, a fact shown in the 1930s by the mathematician Kurt Godel. Godel's theorem establishes that in any mathematical system there must be certain propositions that are obviously true but that can never be proved within the rules of the system...
...mathematical problems that are solvable but that cannot be solved even in principle by a digital computer. Says Penrose: "The very fact that the mind leads us to truths that are not computable convinces me that a computer can never duplicate the mind" -- this despite the fact that the human brain is often described as a particularly complex computer...
...short, Penrose believes human creativity and consciousness are nothing less than the perceptible workings of the most basic laws of the universe. It is a bolder position than other physicists are prepared to take, but Penrose likes to be different. Says he: "Worrying about things that no one else worries about is where insights come from...
...bombshell spotlighted his penchant for grabbing controversial headlines and intensified differences among U.S. bishops over how much to arm-twist pro-choice Catholic politicians. Meeting last November, the bishops declared, "No Catholic can responsibly take a 'pro-choice' stand when the 'choice' in question involves the taking of innocent human life." The same meeting elected hard-liner O'Connor chairman of the bishops' pro-life committee...