It’s not like Penrose doesn’t get out of his depth pretty rapidly. I read The Empires New Mind and my first reaction was has the guy never heard of a heuristic? Brains aren’t perfect Turing machines but sloppy approximaters that make “eh, good enough” decisions.
Comment on References: [1] out of his ass
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yeah, this guy is so full of shit.
DrBob@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
OrganicMustard@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Kaku is very good in physics, he just decided to make money instead of doing proper physics.
Penrose is also considered somewhat wacky in the field, mostly because of conformal cyclic cosmology, but does proper physics
TachyonTele@piefed.social 1 week ago
Penrose is also a legend
MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Angela Collier’s video about this: youtu.be/wBBnfu8N_J0?t=2213 (Kaku part starts at 36:50).
A TLDW on the rest of the video: “Gell-Mann Amnesia” is a term Michael Crichton coined. It refers to how people read articles in a newspaper about a topic they are experts in, realize it’s all horribly written trash, then turn the page and happily read the next article about an unfamiliar topic forgetting they just learned the newspaper is trash.
Collier expands on the idea to include the Gell-Mann Complement and Gell-Mann Recollection. The Recollection is what Kaku does, where he doesn’t know anything about a topic but presents a simple explanation on it anyway just because he’s an expert in something different. This frequently gets him into completely bonkers territory, like Deepak Chopra level bonkers.