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WASTELAND

                              ((note, doomfile singular.  
                                that means this bit is old.))

A theme of the doomfile                   
is emerging: 

The agnony of realizing                       Tortured by Goedel ? 
that rationality is *not* 
enough...                                    

No matter how carefully you try to                                     
consider all options, no matter how                                    
exhaustively you try to list every                                    
possible permutation... You will never                                 
finish the job.                                                        
                                                                       
Somewhere, you are going to have to rely                  (METHOD, lack of --)
on instinct or intuition.  You will have                                      
to make guesses.                                                       
                                                                       
We exist without complete information,                                 
without any certain wisdom.                                            
                                                                       
Beyond the Wasteland, there is another Wasteland.             
                                                          
                    IRONTHORN
                                                   Analogy to chess.
                                                   At first glance, 
                                                   a game that should   
                                                   be ideally suited to 
                                                   machines.  But the 
                                                   combinatorics of 
                                                   different moves explode
                                                   so quickly, that 
                                                   the process of parsing 
                                                   the decision tree 
                                                   is a very tough 
                                                   problem.  The mental
                                                   process actually employed
                                                   by humans is deeply 
                                                   mysterious.  
      

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