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Most popular books 1. Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies 2 own 2. The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul 1 own 3. Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies (Penguin Press Science S.) 0 own 4. Gödel, Escher, Bach. Les Brins d'une Guirlande Eternelle 0 own 5. Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies 0 own View all items - View my items

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How Your Perception Evolve :: www.RockNano.com ::

An animation on ambigrams created by Mara Ang Chong Lai. This piece is about "Ambigrams" or "wordplay" -- a term coined ...

Bach's Neverending Canon

being faded in for each voice while the upper octaves slowly fade. Thus, by the time C Minor is reached again, the lower...

How I Became an Atheist

Demon-Haunted World" by Carl Sagan: www.amazon.com "At Home in the Universe" by Stuart Kauffman: www.amazon.com "The Sel...

Stairway to Nowhere

A Tchaikovsky melodic sequence (from the Nutcracker) reimagined as an endless, circular stairway in the spirit of MC Esc...

Interview with Douglas Hofstadter

Interview with Douglas Hofstadter (French), 2007/06/28

Strange Loop

Consciousness can be characterised as a tangled heirarchy where the higher levels can affect the lower levels which caus...

God 2.0

June 27, 2008 - Last entry we talked about the "daily parrying" that would cause some people to look at a blog titled "G...

You Have a Shape and a Trajectory

To read along please go to imaginingthetenthdimension.blogspot.com For lyrics and more discussion of closing song, go to...

My Fifty Books of 2008.

Palahniuk 37. Lord of the Flies, by William Golding 38. Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card 39. Invisible Monsters, by Chu...

Hofstadter (Victim of Brain)

Can anybody tell me what piece Hofstadter was playing at the end of the clip? In 1988 Dutch director Piet Hoenderdos cre...

Daniel Dennett's brain gets removed!! Part 1

I have selected a section of clips from an old docudrama featuring Daniel Dennett and Douglas Hofstadter. I have only up...

Douglas Hofstadter A living polymath

There are a lot of AMAZING games at whiplash.es Son of a Nobel prize winner and member of a family in which every genera...

Daniel Dennett's brain gets removed!! Part 2

I have selected a section of clips from an old docudrama featuring Daniel Dennett and Douglas Hofstadter. I have only up...

Stanisław Lem: The Perfect Imitation - part 1

"The Seventh Sally or How Trurl's Own Perfection Led to No Good" is a science fiction short story by Stanisław Lem. Ori...

Metacat in action

Arguably one of the most advanced AI programs in existence. Have a look at how it solves a basic analogy problem. I adde...

Analogy as the Core of Cognition

In this Presidential Lecture, cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter examines the role and contributions of analogy in c...

Festival of Books, UCLA 2008, Scienc: Douglas Hofstadter

Sorry, about the video, but I was able to talk with Mr.Hofstadler about his book (I am a strange loop) which I have a mu...

GEB - Golden Eternal Basketball

This is a puppet show as our final project for our Honors Seminar class based on the book entitled "Gödel, Escher, Bach...

Stanisław Lem: The Perfect Imitation - part 2

"The Seventh Sally or How Trurl's Own Perfection Led to No Good" is a science fiction short story by Stanisław Lem. Ori...

Video Feedback One

Experimentation with video feedback, using some ornaments and household objects. Music is #9 Dream by John Lennon. Thank...

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