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From: kay@warwick.UUCP (Kay Dekker)
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Subject: Godel, Escher, Bach
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Date: Fri, 25-Oct-85 14:40:36 EST
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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.
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