Gödel, Escher, Bach An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter

, ...... . r Liftability of Intelligence Thus we are left with two basic problems in the unraveling of thought processes, as the ...

phenomena of nature: they have their own high-level laws which depend on, yet are "liftable" out of, the lower levels. If, on th ...

The fact that a symbol cannot be awakened in isolation does not diminish the separate identity of the ~)'mbol; in fact, quite to ...

This seems to be completely hard-wired behavior. Now in the wasp brain, there may be rudimentary symbols, capable of triggering ...

"rubbing off" instances from classes, in the way that one makes rubbings from brasses in churches, has enabled you to represent ...

on. All of the internal representations of such entities involve the inevitable feature of chunked models: determinism is sacrif ...

that tone relationships could not be stored quite declaratively. On the other hand, some melodies are very easy to memorize, whe ...

imagine quite vividly picking up some object and throwing it, or kicking something; yet we don't actually do so. On the other ha ...

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Er griff sein vorpals Schwertchen zu, Er suchte lang das manchsam' Ding; Dann, stehend unterm Tumtum Baum, Er an-zu-denken-fing. ...

368 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgra ...

CHAPTER XII Minds and Thoughts Can Minds Be Mapped onto Each Other? Now TH AT WE have hypothesized the existence of very high-le ...

FIGURE 70. A tiny portion of the author's "semantic network". ...

sion that there is some sort of partial software isomorphism connecting the brains of people whose style of thinking is similar- ...

nearsighted observer-for example an observer who can only see one vertex at a time; and global properties require only a sweepin ...

In the German version, the droll phrase "er an-zu-denken-fing" oc- curs; it does not correspond to any English original. It is a ...

months. To make things a little easier, you have a cartographer on hand to print everything in neatly. The end product will be y ...

distinction is not relevant here. What is relevant is the centrality of the city, in terms of economics, communication, transpor ...

ing paths in the same way. These core symbols are like the large cities, to which everyone can make reference without ambiguity. ...

dictionaries, novels, or classes-words which at some time may have been prevalent or preferable, but which are now far down in f ...