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

fused" outwards, as the odor of perfume slowly diffuses in a room when the bottle is broken. In that sense the new knowledge tak ...

subsidiary goals, subsubgoals, etc., a tree-like structure will arise, since the main goal may involve several different subgoal ...

ing way. I had heard on the radio a few examples of so-called "Computer Haiku". Something about them struck me deeply. There was ...

haiku-for example, the final sample of four consecutive short sentences. At first it seemed very funny and had a certain charm, ...

(2) Rather think of a pathway of a 'sequence' of gedankenexper- iment simpletons where heir-lines are a prima facie case of a pa ...

My program produced the rest. Numbers 10 to 12 were chosen to show that there were occasional bursts of total lucidity; numbers ...

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as-perhaps emptier than-the p and q of the pq-system. My program took advantage of the fact that when people read text, they qui ...

ASKED A LARGE ENLIGHTENED STUDENT. "THE PEACHES ARE LARGE", THE STUDENT ANSWERED THE CONFUSED MASTER. "HOW CAN WE LEARN AND UNDE ...

able in any way at all (which I believe it is), it is capturable in an A TN- grammar. True. But in that case, I maintain, the gr ...

Winograd's work was separate from the issues of vision, however. Beginning with the assumption that the blocks world was well re ...

One of the basic viewpoints underlying the model is that all language use can be thought of as a way of activating procedures wi ...

of English-"the", "of", "and", "a", and "to"-would be equivalent to solving the entire problem of AI, and hence tantamount to kn ...

the box" as a single phrase indicating a location ... Thus there is a continuing interplay between the different sorts of analys ...

tern's underlying categorization of the world. The result can be represented in a flow chart like that in Figure 118. Note that ...

Contrafactus The Crab has invited a small group of friends over to watch the Saturday afternoon football game on television. Ach ...

next-to-Iast (and only) movement was a one-voice fugue. You can't imagine its intricacies. For our finale, we played Beethoven's ...

Announcer: It's first down and 10 for Out-of-Town. Noddle takes the ball, hands off to Orwix-it's a reverse-Orwix runs around to ...

Crab: So that you can tune it to the proper channel. There are many channels broadcasting in the subjunctive mode, and you want ...

ing. Out-of-Town is in punt formation, with Tedzilliger playing deep. Orwix is back to kick-and he gets a long high one away. It ...