Guardian Article
I would like to recommend the following piece by Ian McEwan which appeared in Saturday's Guardian.
Apart from his espousal of David Deutch's book "The Fabric Of Reality" which was flawed by his lack of understanding of mathematical logic, and relative computability in particular. But I won't go into that here.
The article is at:
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1743898,00.html
Apart from his espousal of David Deutch's book "The Fabric Of Reality" which was flawed by his lack of understanding of mathematical logic, and relative computability in particular. But I won't go into that here.
The article is at:
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1743898,00.html
2 Comments:
I know this doesn't matter, but was 'The Fabric of Reality' flawed by Duetch's or McEwans' failure to grasp logic and computability?
I glanced at the essay, which seemed to be about cannons of ideas, received wisdom, intertextuality, family trees of ideas, conjecture and refutation... etc. There were a lot of words. They began to swim about on the page. I shall print it and read it that way.
When are you off to Budapest?
Fabric of Reality was flawed by Deutsch's failure to grasp relative computability, as it was Deutsch who wrote it.
Sorry, should have made that clearer...
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