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

nts in light of what we already believe. Discussing Richard Hofstadter's 1964 essay "The Paranoid Style in American Politics," Mr. Brotherton accepts Hofstadter's characterization of proponents of politically motivated conspiracy theories as and suffering from "a psychic phenomenon" that prevents them from se

rains, process what we already believe." Discussing Richard Hofstadter's 1964 essay "The Paranoid Style in American Politics," Mr. Brotherton accepts Hofstadter's characterization of proponents of politically motivated conspiracy theories as "paranoid" and suffering from "a psychic phenomenon" that prevents 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