Tag: Hofstadter-Cube
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…
"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…
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…
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…
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…
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…