PROS AND CONS

There was therefore a match between a man and a machine, between a brain and a device, between a prodigious calculator and a little thing of steel capable of calculating.

He's the man who won by a narrow neck, to put it like on the field. And the result, certainly, does the greatest honor to Inaudi, who is a phenomenon, but I find that, contrary to what has been said about this match, the result does even more honor to the machine...

That a human brain, in work which is not labor by force, beats the machine, seems very regular to me. What seems fantastic to me is that the machine, the poor frozen and dead object, the poor object which is nothing but springs and scrap metal, can manage to fight with man... That's magnificent. .. This is striking proof of the perfection of the machine…

No matter how hard we try, in fact... We will never be able to build a more perfect device than the human device, when the human device is of good composition.

No machine can achieve the degree of perfection, sensitivity, finesse and precision of the human machine. The brain is an incomparable marvel. The mechanism of the heart is prodigious; it is without doubt the most extraordinary, the most miraculous of clock movements... For years, years, years, the clock beats, despite all the frolics, all the jumps, sometimes all the madness, what can the body of the pendulum do.

And, there is, in every man, the most powerful force in the world, life, the life which is, which remains, which will remain an unfathomable mystery, as unfathomable as the mystery of the stars or that of the earth...

And we seem to be surprised that a nasty thing coming out of a factory, a nasty thing deprived of this essential force that is life, deprived of this precision device that is the brain, is not quite up to the level of the human being...

No, what is fabulous is that the machine becomes almost the equal of man... It is that man has managed to give the breath of life, the clarity of intelligence , like the emotion of the heart to inert matter, to steel, to iron. Therein lies the miracle.

MAURICE PRAX.