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Faultless computer hardware could still support confusion, forgetting or a sense of beauty
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What Douglas Hofstadter actually said
- Douglas Hofstadter Cognitive scientist, born in 1945, whose Gödel, Escher
There is no reason to believe that a computer's faultlessly functioning hardware could not support high-level symbolic behavior which would represent such complex states as confusion, forgetting, or appreciation of beauty.
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↗Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid (Basic Books, 1979)archive.org
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