I find this painful to read. It's always about what Stephen Wolfram has done and how it is realised in Mathematica. If you are a true expert in a field you should have less trouble acknowledging other people's contributions. I missed, for example, the connection with Church numerals or the acknowledgement that substitution is not just defined in Mathematica.
https://chem.tufts.edu/science/Shermer/E-Skeptic/SkepticsOnW...
>At the end of the Caltech program the moderator, Steven Koonin, asked the panelists to predict whether in 20 years Wolfram's A New Kind of Science will be viewed as a paradigm shift. The unanimous answer was "no." One panelist said, "it is not an approach that has much promise," while another noted that Wolfram's ideas are the "Emperors New Clothes."
We are approaching the 20 year mark and they were resoundingly correct.
>Wolfram tried to get in the last word by stating that this reaction from the panelists is just what one would expect from a paradigm shift.
Wolfram might be the smartest person in the world with NPD. Lol.
Btw here is another famous review of NKS