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

55 FIGURE 126. Bongard problem 55. [From M. Bongard, Pattern Recognition.] 22 FIGURE 127. Bongard problem 22. [From M. Bongard, ...

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70 71 FIGURE 130. Bongard problems 70-71. [From M. Bongard, Pattern Recognition.] slots are shifted from one level of generality ...

By the same token, real science does not divide up into "normal" periods versus "conceptual revolutions"; rather, paradigm shift ...

problems lies very close to the core of "pure" intelligence, if there is such a thing. Therefore it is a good place to begin if ...

We now have reached the point where we are talking about ways of implementing those elusive active symbols of Chapters XI and XI ...

be triggered. In cells, all the complex molecules and organelles are built up, simple step by simple step. Some of these new str ...

This notion of joint activations opens up a Pandora's box of questions. For instance, how much do we hear "dough" and "nut" when ...

begun writing Dialogues, and there were only two characters: Achilles and the Tortoise. Since the Bach crab canon has two voices ...

no sooner did that idea occur to me than the picture Day and Night (Fig. 49) popped into my mind. "Of course!" I thought, "It is ...

structure of the Dialogue. This final touch dramatically heightened the self-reference, and gave the Dialogue a density of meani ...

fact it induced them. That is, once it had been decided that these two notions were to be fused, it became a matter of looking a ...

Multiple Representations Not only must conceptual skeletons exist on different levels of abstraction; also, they must exist alon ...

down has been triggered. The same reaching-down reflex one day occur- red just after I'd left the radio at a repair shop and was ...

Forced matches occur every day in the political cartoons of newspap- ers: a political figure is portrayed as an airplane, a boat ...

Creativity and Randomness It is obvious that we are talking about mechanization of creativity. But is this not a contradiction i ...

measured on an imaginary "keyboard of concepts". Of course, it doesn't suffice to reach wide and plunk down any old way-you may ...

painting where everything goes soft. Language, in human hands, becomes almost like a fluid, despite the coarse grain of its comp ...

seriously. But in some ways, those AI workers are right: it is a little premature to think about computers crying; we must first ...

this suggested-that we might soon be able to command a prepro- grammed mass-produced mail-order twenty-dollar desk-model "music ...