What's the worst book you've ever read?
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ironclad_chomskyan
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Re: What's the worst book you've ever read?
The Symbolic Species by Terrence Deacon, The Kingdom of Speech by Tom Wolfe and Decoding Chomsky by Chris Knight. They all have one thing in common -- utter charlatanism by people running their mouth about things they simply do not understand. Penrose's books on consciousness are also good candidates for this list.
If someone comes along with a theory that cannot, in principle, tell the difference between natural language and systems that are not natural language, then it is not a contribution to cognition, physics, to anything.
-- Noam Chomsky on Geoffrey Hinton
-- Noam Chomsky on Geoffrey Hinton
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Archmage
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Re: What's the worst book you've ever read?
I just finished reading a book called "Flowers for Algernon", basically the main character has mental issues that results in a lower IQ, he undergoes a procedure that increases his IQ and you follow along his thoughts. He keeps a journal throughout the whole process and it's an interesting way to convey how he communicates and shows progress through those writings.
It's the first book in a hot minute where I just could not put it down. I think I finished it in the course of two days because I could not get enough of it. I will warn folks it does have some outdated language so if that's something that would turn you off I'd suggest caution.
It's the first book in a hot minute where I just could not put it down. I think I finished it in the course of two days because I could not get enough of it. I will warn folks it does have some outdated language so if that's something that would turn you off I'd suggest caution.
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