No, no - I think about thinking
Supperational thinkers, by recursive definition, include in their calculations the fact that they are in a group of superrational thinkers.
I personally cannot imagine that consciousness will be fully understood without reference to Godelian loops or level-crossing feedback loops.
And one of my firmest conclusions is that we always think by seeking and drawing parallels to things we know from our past, and that we therefore communicate best when we exploit examples, analogies,...
The 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.
It now becomes clear that consistency is not a property of a formal system per se, but depends on the interpretation which is proposed for it. By the same token, inconsistency is not an intrinsic prop...
I can't help but recall, at this point, a horribly elitist but very droll remark by one of my favorite writers, the American critic of the seven arts, James Huneker, in his scintillating biography of...
Deep understanding of causality sometimes requires the understanding of very large patterns and their abstract relationships and interactions, not just the understanding of microscopic objects interac...
But finally I realized that to me, Godel and Escher and Bach were only shadows cast in different directions by some central solid essence. I tried to construct the central object, and came up with thi...
If one keeps climbing upward in the chain of command within the brain, one finds at the very top those over-all organizational forces and dynamic properties of the large patterns of cerebral excitatio...
We are all egocentric, and what is realest to each of us, in the end, is ourself.
People enjoy inventing slogans which violate basic arithmetic but which illustrate deeper truths, such as 1 and 1 make 1 (for lovers), or 1 plus 1 plus 1 equals 1 (the Trinity). You can easily pick ho...
What is an I, and why are such things found (at least so far) only in association with, as poet Russell Edson once wonderfully phrased it, teetering bulbs of dread and dream -- that is, only in associ...
What does it matter if two brains are isomorphic, or quasi-isomorphic, or not isomorphic at all? The answer is that we have an intuitive sense that, although other people differ from us in important w...
This computer-generated pangram contains six a's, one b, three c's, three d's, thirty-seven e's, six f's, three g's, nine h's, twelve i's, one j, one k, two l's, three m's, twenty-two n's, thirteen o'...
There are those who will immediately be drawn to the idea of pattern-seeking, and
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 leavi...
For now, what is important is not finding the answer, but looking for it.
What gives us word-users the right to make life-and-death decisions concerning other living creatures that have no words? Why do we find ourselves in positions of such anguish (at least for some of us...