Always a moment when you find yourself agreeing with the sentiment and outcome of a public intellectual despite reading inordinate amounts of contextual vituperation about said public intellectual from professional historians regarding his writing.

Despite wanting to say "stopped clock wrong twice a day" I think he's right to conclusions. I might differ to reasons because my principle position is the lack of induction, and therefore inductive reasoning. Self recognition wasn't high on my list of reasons but I may reconsider.

Also, like lots of autodidacts out of his field, he overrated the Turing test. It's a thought experiment, its not real. We don't lock Chinese philosophers in caves Jared.