Re: VMs: RE: GC's first reply

[Gordon Rugg <g.rugg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It's from Richard Dawkins, in his book "The Blind Watchmaker" - some of the
discussion there about complexity is probably pretty relevant to VMS research.

Best wishes,

Gordon

GC wrote:

> Gordon wrote:
>
> > The "hoax" theory is usually rejected on the grounds of what Dawkins calls
> > "argument from personal incredulity", i.e. "I find it impossible
> > to believe X".
> > The problem with that is that expertise is brittle - the
> > literature on expertise
> > consistently reports that when experts move off their home ground, their
> > performance drops rapidly to the level of lay people. An expert
> > linguist may
> > know a lot more about linguistics than a lay person, but that
> > doesn't mean they
> > are automatically an expert on hoaxing languages; likewise for
> > codebreakers.
>
> Is this Peter Dawkins you are referring to?  This certainly sounds like
> something he would say...
>
> GC
>
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