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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 Hofstadter’s book. For movie buffs, the Penrose steps appear in the film Inception, starring Leonardo DiCaprio. The fact we get pl

uch further forward in understanding creativity. Alan Turing described his thoughts on the science behi

ile, we realize there might be no solution. And indeed there is not. This is the Kochen- Specker Paradox. The odd shaped cubes on the building in the Escher print are an example of one of these impossible figures. An analogy to this problem is trying to solve a_ broken Rubik’s Cube. There is a really mis

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