#douglashofstadter — Public Fediverse posts
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So hey, Fediverse. I did a thing that's just the minutest possible first step of a plan I first dreamed up in 1996. It's an implementation of Douglas Hofstadter's parallel terraced scan in preparation for a lot more work in that direction.
https://codeberg.org/Vivtek/AI-TerracedScan
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#CurrentlyReading #DouglasHofstadter's "Godel, Escher, Bach", as recommended by #Electro-pioneer #MartynWare. Also reading Martyn Ware's "Electronically Yours", as written by the previously mentioned recommender. God bless our #PublicLibraries! 🎶 🎞️ 📖 👍 😁 #Books #Reading #Literature #Music #SynthWave #Science #PublicLibrary cc: @everylibrary
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To Err is Human; to Study Error-Making is Cognitive Science
https://worrydream.com/refs/Hofstadter_1989_-_To_Err_is_Human.pdf
"However, what began as a hobby for us became a more serious endeavor as we realized, as so many people have, that the study of speech errors and action slips can reveal a great deal about the hidden organization of the minds that produce them. " -- #DouglasHofstadter #DaivdMoser
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Found in the boxes. I first read this in 1982 (this very copy! The Amidala bookmark is more recent) and I'm continually surprised how much of his later research program was explicitly laid out here.
I *last* read it sometime in the 80's, probably, but there's a lot of fraying tape on it, because I read it often enough to start wearing out the cover. So, since I'm retracing his footsteps now, I figured it was probably time to reread it.