Tag: Hofstadter-Cube

Core

Promotional description of a new book: "Like Gödel, Escher, Bach  before it, Surfaces and Essences  will profoundly enrich our understanding of our own minds. By plunging the reader…

Cuber

"Examples galore of this feeling must have arisen in the minds of the people who extended the Magic Cube concept to other polyhedra, other dimensions, other ways of…

Beyond Forgetfulness

From this journal on July 23, 2007— It is not enough to cover the rock with leaves. We must be cured of it by a cure of the…

Monday July 23, 2007

  Daniel Radcliffe is 18 today.     Greetings. “The greatest sorcerer (writes Novalis memorably) would be the one who bewitched himself to the point of taking his…

Saturday November 5, 2005

Contrapuntal Themes in a Shadowland   (See previous entry.) Douglas Hofstadter on his magnum opus: "… I realized that to me, Gödel and Escher and Bach were only…

Friday May 6, 2005

Fugues "To improvise an eight-part fugue is really beyond human capability." — Douglas R. Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach Order of a projective  automorphism group: 168 "There are possibilities…