The intensity of Mr Searle's criticism gives the impression that thesephilosophers' mistakes are even worse than Mr Penrose's even though Mr Penrose's extravagant hypothesis that there are three worlds (the physical, the mental and the mathematical) will seem quite as strange to most readers as anything from Mr Dennett or Mr Chalmers.
Readers familiar with the ongoing debates about religion and science and their compatibility (or lack thereof) will be familiar with most of these scientists and philosophers.
Either these essential lessons are torn from context transforming Christ into favored worldly philosophers, or this man who changed history contradicted himself within the span of several sentences.
There are, indeed, many philosophers in the San Francisco startup scene, but even more relevant than philosophy for understanding these changes, is physics.