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

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43-yard plane. And there you have it, 3-D fans, as it would've looked if football were played in four spatial dimensions. Achill ...

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CHAPTER XIX Artificial Intelligence: Prospects "Almost" Situations and Subjunctives AFTER READING Contrafactus, a friend said to ...

The New Yorker commented: And if Michelangelo had been Siamese twins, the work would have been completed in half the time. The p ...

It is unlikely that man, as we know him, would have survived without the fictive, counter-factual, anti-determinist means of lan ...

mean is that any of them can vary (including the "constant"); however, there is a kind of hierarchy of variability. In the situa ...

filled; then you may need to fill slots in some of the inner chests of drawers (or subframes). This can go on, recursively. The ...

which I can give no answers. There has as yet been no complete agreement on what a frame really is, or on how to implement frame ...

later stages. The ideas presented below also have a tentative quality to them. I will try to convey overall ideas first, glossin ...

47 FIGURE 120. Bongard problem 47. [From M. Bongard, Pattern Recognition.] Thus, a typical box-say I-F of BP 47 (Fig. 120)-could ...

91 rc>J ~ FIGURE 121. Bongard problem 91. [From M. Bongard, Pattern Recognition.] which have this property. It is a little li ...

Templates and Sameness-Detectors One good strategy would be to try to make descriptions structurally similar to each other, to t ...

It is very simple: the description-template has two explicit slots where subdescriptions are to be attached. A Heterarchical Pro ...

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Now that "three" has risen one level of generality-namely, into the template-it becomes worthwhile to explore its neighbors in t ...

The difference between a triangle and a square is that one has 3 sides and the other has 4. 4 is similar to 3. A circle is a clo ...

the other hand, things shouldn't be so wishy-washy that nothing has any meaning at all, either. The trick is to know when and ho ...

between Class I and Class II in BP 85. Now it goes on to BP 86. A general heuristic which it uses is to try out recent ideas whi ...

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