Questions tagged [hofstadter]
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Has Hofstadter's concept of strange loop been given a more formal treatment (by him or anyone else) than "GEB" and "I am a strange loop"?
I find Hofstadter's concept of strange loop and how it explains consciousness to be very compelling.
However I find the writing style in "Goedel Escher and Bach" to be too distracting and "I am a strange loop" to be too gee-whiz pop-sciency. I'm…
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Are Douglas Hofstadter's views on consciousness taken seriously by philosophers?
I'm reading "Godel, Escher, Bach", and Hofstadter's idea that consciousness emerges out of strange loops born out of experience.
Now, I know nothing about the philosophy of consciousness at all. But is this notion taken with any seriousness by…
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How to motivate a general AI to be curious and explore the world
I recently posted a similar question over on Stack Overflow but they just weren't having it, so I figured I'd bring it over here.
I'm developing a model for a general AI based roughly on Douglas Hofstadter's theory of analogy/categorization as the…
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Why does a formal language not need to specify time interval to be interpreted?
I am reading a book about history of mathematics, and it inspired to think about that formal languages do not need to specify time to transfer a message.
I am thinking about DNA as a formal language, about linguistic (although I specify a comma as…
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*Gödel, Escher, Bach* quote illustrating syntax vs. semantics?
On what page of Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach (GEB) is the paragraph he quotes which is syntactically correct but almost completely void of any meaning except for a very esoteric group of specialists? Hofstadter used it to illustrate the…
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Why is Hofstadter referring to Gödel as "a young Turk from Austria"?
In I am a Strange Loop, Hofstadter describes the history of Gödel's incompleteness theorem, talking about how venerable Russel, after developing his supposedly all-encompassing and paradox-free Principia Mathematica, was thwarted by "a young Turk…
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