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Old 04-08-2008, 04:04 PM
David Bailey David Bailey is offline
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To amplify something Tor said,

Emotions come into all science. I can still (dimly) remember the emotions I had when I got my first chemistry set and read "Teach yourself chemistry". I can also remember the sense of power that I felt when I read a little book on calculus, whose title I have long forgotten. I remember the excitement at the idea of artificial intelligence, and then the dawning realisation that maybe the truth was stranger than that .....

David
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