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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 25723262, member: 27832&quot;]I disagree (surprise!).</p><p><br /></p><p>Yeah, chess is a <i>discrete</i> problem, with a finite set of solutions. But that set is really <i>really</i> <b>REALLY</b> huge. The number of possible games is much, much larger than the number of atoms in the observable Universe. There is <i>no</i> hope of exhaustively, mechanically enumerating them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Depending on your perspective, the number of possible distinct measures combining to determine a coin&#039;s grade <i>might</i> be infinite. But the number of <i>distinguishable</i> combinations is not. It&#039;s small enough to fit into a well-trained human mind, just as the <i>meaningful</i> chess positions do.</p><p><br /></p><p>Where we likely differ: I&#039;m not convinced that there&#039;s some immaterial component of the human <i>mind</i> that computers will never emulate. I suspect that either there&#039;s no such component, or there&#039;s nothing stopping computers from emulating it along with everything else. Or maybe even <i>gaining</i> it themselves.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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