George Duke wrote on Wed, Dec 1, 2004 01:40 AM UTC:
To your comment on intelligent selection, Roberto, I like a quote by
scientist George Wald: 'Several years ago a thought struck that at first
seemed so aberrant as to embarrass me. That was that mind, rather being a
late product of evolution, had been there from the start; and that this
became a life-breeding universe because the constant and pervasive
presence of mind had guided it in that direction.' I think Fischer's
chess-driven comments too intelligent to be from anyone else; if he does
not simply say he is not the grandmaster within a day or two, I assume
about 50-50 he is.