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From: phaedrus@eneevax.UUCP (The Sophist)
Newsgroups: net.books
Subject: RE: Peter Benson's article on GEB
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Date: Thu, 2-May-85 00:25:57 EDT
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>	
>	GEB is cute and turgid and funny.  I did read it cover to
>	cover BUT I did not understand everything I read.  If I had
>	demanded that of myself I would not have finished.  I am not a
>	formal systems heavy-weight or a biologist or a philosopher,
>	so I can't judge the worth of the book in those domains.
>	Inter-disciplinary work is hard to do in such a way that
>	purists accept it.  So be it.  Hofstadter brings together a
>	lot of stuff I had thought about for years.  Better than that
>	he thought about it better than I have.  I liked the book
>	and I am looking for an attractive woman who also read it
>	so we can get together and talk about it.
>	
>	So there.
>	
>	-- 
>	Peter Benson


Bravo! Bravo! Couldn't have written it any better myself.  I am also
not a formal system/biology/philosopher type and I enjoyed the book.
Maybe, you guys are all taking the book too seriously.  It was fun and
informative, and the book caused me to start reading more serious works
on AI and learn LISP and all that good stuff.

P.S. I am an EE.


-- 
			Pravin Kumar

Don't bother me! I'm on an emergency third rail power trip.

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