I also had the sense that it was a bunch of old ideas dressed up in new ones. I like the comparison with Plato's forms. I also felt that his model of reality

I also had the sense that it was a bunch of old ideas dressed up in new ones. I like the comparison with Plato's forms. I also felt that his model of reality influenced by Turing machines was way too close to an actual Turing machine. Really he just added a few more variable spaces to make it a abstract enough to fit.