Douglas Hofstadter
American cognitive scientist, born in 1945; author of Gödel, Escher, Bach (1979).
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It always takes longer than you expect, even when you allow for that
Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
archive.orgSaid c. 1979This on korrents
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It always takes longer than you expect, even when you allow for that
Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid (Basic Books, 1979) Said c. 1979
Faultless computer hardware could still support confusion, forgetting or a sense of beauty
There is no reason to believe that a computer's faultlessly functioning hardware could not support high-level symbolic behavior which would represent such complex states as confusion, forgetting, or appreciation of beauty.
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid (Basic Books, 1979) Said c. 1979
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