Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site warwick.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!mcvax!ukc!warwick!kay From: kay@warwick.UUCP (Kay Dekker) Newsgroups: net.cog-eng Subject: Godel, Escher, Bach Message-ID: <2336@flame.warwick.UUCP> Date: Fri, 25-Oct-85 14:40:36 EST Article-I.D.: flame.2336 Posted: Fri Oct 25 14:40:36 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 29-Oct-85 00:47:37 EST References: <2246@iddic.UUCP> Reply-To: kay@warwick.UUCP (Kay Dekker) Distribution: net Organization: VLSI Group, Warwick University, UK Lines: 32 Xpath: warwick flame flame ubu In article <2246@iddic.UUCP> dorettas@iddic.UUCP (Doretta Schrock) writes: >Has anyone else read _Godel, Escher, Bach_? Or Pylyshyn's _Computation and >Cognition_? Or _The Psychology of Human-Computer Interaction_? What did >you think? I've read G,E,B: I can't say I thought much of it at all. I find DH's style irritating, confusing and condescending. Certainly many people around here consider it simply as a book to leave around on coffee tables to indicate intellectuality. As a sidethought: of the 20 or so people who I know who have read G,E,B (and I'm only counting those who have persevered beyond the first couple of sections), those who are/were within the AI/Cognition cluster seemed to appreciate it most, while Computer Scientists tended to dismiss it as 'trendy garbage'. Engineers liked the pictures :-) Computation & Cognition? Haven't read it through yet (I had 40 minutes with someone else's copy), but consider it well worth reading on that limited basis. Psychology of Human-Computer Interaction? Haven't heard of this. Who's it by? Would *you* recommend it? Disclaimer: I'm not a Cognition person: I just happen to live with one. Kay. -- rmgroup 'em till they glow... ... mcvax!ukc!warwick!flame!kay