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Posted by Blinky the Shark on 06/12/07 02:53
Ben C wrote:
> On 2007-06-11, Blinky the Shark <no.spam@box.invalid> wrote:
>> Ben C wrote:
>>> On 2007-06-11, dorayme <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>>>> In article <slrnf6pctg.4ka.no.spam@thurston.blinkynet.net>,
>>>> Blinky the Shark <no.spam@box.invalid> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
> [...]
>>>>> > There are exceptions to every rule. <g>
>>>>>
>>>>> The exception to that rule is that some rules have no exceptions. :)
>>>>
>>>> Actually, this is quite an interesting idea, as in paradoxical
>>>> (as in it makes the head hurt thinking about it).
>>>
>>> It's a good one. I think it's called a Goedel sentence.
>>
>> Anyone in here ever read Doug Hofstadter's "G?del, Escher, Bach: An
>> Eternal Golden Braid"? It's what got me into computers/computing as a
>> hobby, way back. And what actually got me thinking, again, after I'd
>> been out of college for a while. More than when I'd been *in* college,
>> come to think of it.
>
> No but it sounds interesting. Thanks for the links, that Gary Felder
> site is very good.
I hope you find time to check it out. It's an amazing read. It led me
to two other of Hofstadter's books, one, IIRC, perhaps co-authored by
Roger Penrose. Or perhaps Hofstadter just drew on Penrose a lot and
that led me to him.
>> http://tal.forum2.org/geb
<leaves in the GEB link as bait for others> :)
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