Epstein Secrets

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standing? Each summer I go on holiday to escape engineering for a couple of weeks. While away I indulge my passion for reading books by the likes of Douglas Hofstadter, David Deutsch and Stephen Hawking. One book that struck me years ago was Roger Penrose’s The Emperors New Mind. In it, he tackles the question of wh

Big Bang? Is what we take for a Universe really nothing more complex than putting a DVD in the slot and hitting play? One last piece of trivia links Hofstadter with Penrose: Roger Penrose and his father invented the Penrose Steps, inspiring the never- ending staircase in the Escher prints featured in Hofstad

nt, for instance, in the 19th-century philosophy of Charles Peirce [Pei34], in the writings of contempo- rary philosophers Daniel Dennett [Den91] and Douglas Hofstadter [Hof79, Hof96], in Benjamin Whorf’s [Who64] linguistic philosophy and Gregory Bateson’s [Bat79] systems theory of mind and nature. Bateson spoke of t

lexive inference, which represents in connectionist architecture relations, types, entities and causal rules using focal-clusters. However, much like Hofstadter’s earlier Copycat architecture [Hof95], Shruti seems more interesting as a prototype exploration of ideas than as a practical AGI system; at least, a