theorists:hofstadter_douglas
Hofstadter, Douglas
It's not possible for me to exaggerate Hofstadter's influence on my thinking. It's he that made me believe that people's general ignorance of computing, technology and cognition are a hindrance. The Jesus nut of my work, reflexivity, is actually derivative of his strange loop concept. And it's he that gave me my formative framework for understanding and explaining such things. Hofstadter's purpose along the way was to explain artificial intelligence (AI) and the likelihood of hard AI. I used to be a follower, but now I have different a approach that ensues AI in favour of intelligence amplification.
Here are some links to information about Hofstadter:
- A lecture on Analogy as the Core of Cognition - which is exciting as hell because it validates my claim that we should be using computers to provide examples of problem solutions instead of programming them to be intelligent enough to provide actual solutions
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