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

from Computer Models of Thought and Language, edited by Roger C. Schank and Kenneth Mark Colby. W. H. Freeman and Company, copyr ...

Index AABB form, 130, 227 Abel, Niels Henrik, 404 ABORT (BlooP), 412 abortion, 176 abstraction, levels of, 651-53, 656-57, 660, ...

associativity, 55-56, 207 assumptions, shaky, 420, 422, 429, 580, 581, 644, 672 ASU's: defined, 373-74: orientation in, 375; tri ...

"Canon per Tonos" (Bach), see Endlessly Rising Canon canons: copies and, 8-9, 146; Dialogues and, 665-69, 738; Escher drawings a ...

computer systems, 287-302 computers: assembled by computers, 504, 684; crying, 675-76; determinism and, 25-27, 306-7, 684--86; f ...

194,416,439-41, 470; for well-formedness, 182, 269, 416, 582; for wondrousness, 402, 425 decoding: of DNA, 159-62, 175-76, 201, ...

Escher. Maurits Camelis: Bach and. 201. ~7; contradictions and. 97-99; copies and. 146-48; drawings of. see list of IUustrations ...

games played by AI programs, 601 Ganoo, 189-90, 256, 407 gases and molecules, 307--8, 317, 693 Gatele5s Gat., see MumonJran Gaus ...

Hilbert's tenth problem. 459-00 H(n).137 Hofstadter. D. R.. 75. 310. 724. 728. 742 Hofstadter's Law. 152 Hogen. 248 holes in for ...

inviolate level. 686-92 inationality vs. rationality in brain/mind. 575-78 irregularities. meta-irregularities. etc. 475-76 1san ...

levels (ctmtinmd) 715-16; haziness of. 13-15. 546-48. 715-16; in- tennediate. 302-3. 317. 324. 532. 632; of irre- ality. 243.641 ...

Meredith. Marsha. 625 Mergenthaler. Otto. 630 message-passing languages. 662~3 messages. 154. 158-76; in ant colonies. 350; in b ...

neurons (clmlinued) 344-45.346. 347; as summing inputs. 316. 340. 575-77. 677 neurosurgery. 309. 313-14. 618. 678 NI!UJ Yorker. ...

phages. see viruses phenotype. see genotype and phenotype XI74. 176. 524-25 phonographs. see record players phonons. 304 phoroco ...

pushcorn, 124-25 pushing, 127-34, 184--85 pushing-potion, 105~ Pushkin, Alexander, 124 puzzles, 8, 33-35, 62~3, 67, 73, 137, 182 ...

Rose, Steven, 342 Rosetta stone, 165, 166 Roszak, Theodore, 574 Rousseau, Henri, 680 Royal Theme, 4-10, 96, 719, 739-40 rRNA,528 ...

skimming off top levels, 309, 325, 326, 358-59, 568-79 slinky, 337 slippage, conceptual, 633-40, 641-44, 654-56, 672; see also c ...

709-10. 719; near miss. 691; in Propositional Calculus. 194; of self-modifying chess. 688; of Tortoise's reasoning, 177~0; of Ty ...

triggering patterns of symbols (c<mlinued) sages, 350, 371; for melodies, 364; nouns vs. verbs, 361; randomness in, 673 trigg ...

conceptual mapping, 668, 672; rubbing-off and, 361--62 voices in fugues and canons, 28, 282-83, 314, 322-23, 335, 665-67, 669, 6 ...