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I think 'crank' may be overstating it. His PhD is from MIT, and he's been a full professor at UC Irvine for 25+ years, publishing pretty continuously. While t
by JackFr 11y ago
I think 'crank' may be overstating it. His PhD is from MIT, and he's been a full professor at UC Irvine for 25+ years, publishing pretty continuously.
While that certainly doesn't mean he's right -- plenty of people accept that Penrose is a genius who is wrong about certain ideas. I think dismissing this guy as a crank is not the best way to disagree.
- maldusiecle 11y agoApologies, I should have used a better phrase. Although I still think he fits the dictionary definition of the word ("an eccentric person, especially one who is obsessed by a particular subject or theory."), I can see how it might be interpreted as more demeaning than that. I stand by my opinion that the ideas expressed in this interview are bizarre and incoherent. Then again, many very well-educated and well-credentialed people have held weird ideas about the mind.