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From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Subject: Re: Roger Penrose's New Book (in HTML) 1.0
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In article <3aef9v$ro@cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu> hpm@cs.cmu.edu writes:
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>Mikal Zaine: But if those philosophers were to convince sponsors...
>
>Jeff Dalton:  Is that what's behind the extreme hostility to Penrose?
>
>There may have been a little worry right after his first book, from
>people still not fully recovered from the decimation of British AI
>following the 1973 report by Lighthill (another physicist).
>
>But, by now, everyone, even his most solicitous reviewers, see
>Penrose's gravitonic brains as a cute eccentrism.
>
>In fact, his books are high class flame bait, and the controversy over
>them is just good clean fun, a high class barroom brawl.

Cool.

-- jd
