How gullible are you? Is your gullibility located in some "gullibility center" in your brain? Could a neurosurgeon reach in and perform some delicate operation to lower your gullibility, otherwise leaving you alone? If you believe this, you are pretty gullible, and should perhaps consider such an operation.
Douglas R. HofstadterMeaning lies as much
in the mind of the reader
as in the Haiku.
It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order - and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order.
Douglas R. HofstadterSometimes it seems as though each new step towards AI, rather than producing something which everyone agrees is real intelligence, merely reveals what real intelligence is not.
Douglas R. HofstadterTags: intelligence humanity ai
In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self-reference.
Douglas R. HofstadterThe key question is, no matter how much you absorb of another person, can you have absorbed so much of them that when that primary brain perishes, you can feel that that person did not totally perish from the earth... because they live on in a 'second neural home'?... In the wake of a human being's death, what survives is a set of afterglows, some brighter and some dimmer, in the collective brains of those who were dearest to them... Though the primary brain has been eclipsed, there is, in those who remain... a collective corona that still glows.
Douglas R. HofstadterHofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law
Douglas R. HofstadterTags: productivity
I would like to understand things better, but I don’t want to understand them perfectly.
Douglas R. HofstadterThe paraphrase of Gödel's Theorem says that for any record player, there are records which it cannot play because they will cause its indirect self-destruction.
Douglas R. HofstadterThis idea that there is generality in the specific is of far-reaching importance.
Douglas R. HofstadterTags: abstraction generality prototypes specificity
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