Not even a compact hour of Nova can untaint that pyramid of anti-intuitive machine-massaging into a 'Proof' of anything inspiring Belief or even cha-cha-cha... Or as AE put it

The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. He who knows it not and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle. It was the experience of mystery--even if mixed with fear-that engendered religion. A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which are only
accessible to our reason in their most elementary forms-it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute the truly religious
attitude; in this sense, and in this alone, I am a deeply religious man. I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his
creatures, or has a will of the type of which we are conscious in ourselves. An individual who should survive his physical death is also beyond my comprehension, nor do I wish it otherwise; such notions are for the fears or absurd egoism of feeble souls. Enough for me the mystery of the eternity of life, and the inkling of the marvellous structure of reality, together with the single-hearted endeavour to comprehend a portion, be it never so tiny, of the reason that manifests itself in nature.

from, The World as I See It

Of course too re Chess, the possibility -nay Hope!- of the simultaneous yet divergent multiple attack - G\ufffddel will bite the serial-plodding bit pushers in that rotating accumulator, eventually -- this sucker ain't nothin like er Turing-complete? All that needs doing is Golf-handicap - make those sucker-machines suffer under scaled time-constraints. Er, \ufffd 2005 Mua-dlin Associates LLC


RIP Alan - but if you'da liked gurrls... well.. we mighta had MasterCard consolidated-debt Off-the-Top --> [The 1%'s Repository under Yucca Mountain and The Caymans] decades earlier! :(