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

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octave gradually fade out, while at the same time you are gradually bring- ing in the bottom octave. Just at the moment you woul ...

Six-Part Ricercar Achilles has brought his cello to the Crab's residence, to engage in an evening of chamber music with the Crab ...

Achilles: Well, I like animals, even if you two stuffy ones disapprove. Crab: I don't think we are so stuffy, Achilles. Let's ju ...

what would the smart-stupid itself say, if you asked it for its opinion on the free-will question? I was just wondering if the t ...

been mechanically determined, but this I refuse to believe. I can accept physical determinism, but I cannot accept the idea that ...

Achilles: Big deal! It was just some sort of trickery. Probably all done with mIrrors. Tortoise: No trickery, Achilles, and no m ...

Author: I hope you don't mind, Achilles, but I'm to blame for the fact that you and Mr. Tortoise said the same things, but in re ...

Author: But I am also comparing you to a sand castle, Achilles. Is that not poetic? Besides, you may take comfort in the fact th ...

Turtoise: A performance of all the celebrated canons from the Musical Offering? Author: Precisely. Crab: Capital suggestion! Qui ...

welcome the challenge of trying out your new "smart-stupids", of which I have only the slightest knowledge by means of hearsay. ...

Tortoise: I think that is because they are all growing in size. Babbage: That is intentional. As the figures grow, so may the Cr ...

case, due to my own insufficiencies in the art of instructing smart- stupids. (He yields his seat to the Crab. On the screen app ...

Achilles: Personally, I'm dying for a cup of coffee. Is anyone else In- terested? I'd be glad to fix some. Tortoise: Sounds grea ...

FIGURE 149. Verbum, by M. C. Escher (lithograph, 1942). Babbage: Such praise is hardly due me, Mr. Crab; it is rather yourself w ...

FIGURE 150. The Crab's Guest: BABBAGE, C. Crab: It is simple: to instill in the smart-stupid an intelligence greater than any wh ...

Crab: I understand fully your demurral, and appreciate your sparing us any discomfort; furthermore I highly applaud your determi ...

Turing: Memory often plays strange tricks. Think of this: I could suggest equally well that you had been brought into being only ...

Turing: My test? Please, consider it YOURS. Babbage: My test? Nay, consider it YOURS. Crab: This test seems to have been suggest ...

Author: I'm not sure who's on which-I think they're both pretty inscruta- ble programs, though. (As they are talking, the door o ...