I'm really surprised at the negative reaction to this article! For what it's worth here's a great (much more mathematically sophisticated) article on this topi

I'm really surprised at the negative reaction to this article! For what it's worth here's a great (much more mathematically sophisticated) article on this topic (that is nonetheless still quite speculative in its tone) http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~cgates/PERSI/papers/eigen.pdf http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~cgates/PERSI/papers/eigen.pdf