Archive for April, 2007
Hofstadter on perception and reception
I’m reading Douglas Hofstadter’s new book I Am A Strange Loop just now, and just ran into my first significant disagreement with him (in this book, that is). On page 76, after describing a walk along an airport concourse during which various scents evoke numerous associations, he writes (emphases in the original): Each of these [...]
April 25, 2007
Posted in: AI, consciousness, differentials, philosophy 
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