This reminds me of the thread where Geoffrey Hinton is wrongly described as laboring in the wilderness in promoting his ideas. Neural net's star has fallen and risen over the years but it always was a mainstream approach. In contrast, despite his fame as a mainstream explainer of CS, Hofstadter's approach has never gotten more than a few nibbles from researchers broadly and I think it's effectively only being pursued now by a dozen or less people who were direct student of his. I think that's a shame but what do I know?