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| | Changeux, J. and Connes, A.; DeBevoise, M.B., ed. and trans.: Conversations on Mind, Matter, and Mathematics. |
 | | Jean-Pierre Changeux, an internationally renowned neurobiologist, and Alain Connes, one of the most eminent living mathematicians, find themselves deeply divided by these questions. |
 | | The problematic status of mathematical objects leads Changeux and Connes to the organization and function of the brain, the ways in which its embryonic and post-natal development influences the unfolding of mathematical reasoning and other kinds of thinking, and whether human intelligence can be simulated, modeled,--or actually reproduced-- by mechanical means. |
 | | Connes might best be characterized by reviving an old term. |
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