Douglas Hofstadter
Cognitive scientist, born in 1945, whose Gödel, Escher, Bach (1979) explored self-reference and "strange loops" as a key to minds and to artificial intelligence.
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Their wordsHofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
↗Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid (Basic Books, 1979)archive.org All 2 from this book
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Our reading
Faultless computer hardware could still support confusion, forgetting or a sense of beauty
Their wordsThere 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.
↗Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid (Basic Books, 1979)archive.org All 2 from this book