From: John Brockman <

From: John Brockman < INIMIF To: Nathan Myhrvold Cc: Larry Page - , J Pierre Omidyar , Stewart , Elon Musk , Bill Gates , Tony Fadell Jimm Evan Williams Craig Venter Christopher Anderson , Nick Pritzker Jean Pigozzi , Jeff Skoll Jeffre E stein <jeevacation , Anne Treisman , Sergey Brin , Dean Kamen George Dyson Hillis , Sean Parker Richard Thaler , Tim O'Reilly Salar Kamangar Eva Wisten Jennifer Jacquet , Jaron Lanier , "J.E. Safra/Doumanian" , Mark Zuckerberg mail.com>, Daniel Kahneman June Cohen Subject: Dyson on Kahneman - New York Review of Books Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:42:28 +0000 Attachments: How_ to_ Dispel_Your Illusions.docx On Nov 30, 2011, at 3:36 PM, Nathan Myhrvold wrote: > I must say that I love the irony of this. The NYT list is telling us > what to think about Danny's book. Meanwhile the book tells us that we > can be unduly influenced by people telling us what to think... It is > wonderfully circular. > It is very well deserved honor nonetheless - Danny should be proud of > it. > And for that matter, of his incredible book agent too :-) > Nathan OK, enough emails from me on Kahneman. This is the final one (promise!) until and unless he wins the Pulitzer or the Nobel Prize for Literature. With Freeman Dyson's final paragraph in his review (attached) NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS, Danny can take a few days off (and so can I). Cheers, JB THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS December 22, 2011 - Page 40 How to Dispel Your Illusions EFTA00719772 Freeman Dyson Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 499 pp., $30.00 (Final paragraph:) "Freud and James were artists and not scientists. It is normal for artists who achieve great acclaim during their lifetimes to go into eclipse and become unfashionable after their deaths. Fifty or a hundred years later, they may enjoy a revival of their reputations, and they may then be admitted to the ranks of permanent greatness. Admirers of Freud and James may hope that the time may come when they will stand together with Kahneman as three great explorers of the human psyche, Freud and James as explorers of our deeper emotions, Kahneman as the explorer of our more humdrum cognitive processes. But that time has not yet come. Meanwhile, we must he grateful to Kahneman for giving us in this book a joyful understanding of the practical side of our personalities." EFTA00719773