April 3, 2002

Tom Sgouros
15 Boston Neck Road
Wickford, RI 02852

Dear Tom,

I'm writing to thank you for the wonderful show at Penn State last week. I very much enjoyed both the show and the opportunity to meet and talk with you. I wish we'd had a bigger crowd, but many of those who came have commented to me on how much they enjoyed it.

I especially enjoyed the way the show mixes humor and intellectual content. It really brings home that issues about intelligence, identity, and consciousness are central human concerns, not just dry academic topics. It is a very impressive accomplishment to put together a show that both holds a four-year-old's attention and stimulates an old professor's thinking! Judy herself is great, and I found myself drawn in despite knowing something about the stagecraft that makes her work. The show really stimulated some intellectual discussion among members of the audience. The question-and-answer session afterward was also great, and we all really appreciated your willingness to share your thinking with us.

I hope that we get a chance to meet again, perhaps at Cognitive Science this summer. If you're on tour in our area again, please let me know so that we can consider bringing you back for a repeat performance.

Please feel free to share this letter with others -- if anyone is wondering whether the show is worthwhile, I'll be happy to tell them that it is, and then some!

Best wishes,

Rich Carlson