Doug Hofstadter: Reflections on AI
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The Importance of Having Pictures in Your Book
M.C. Escher paradoxical strange pictures were flooding through my brain as I was writing, but I wasn't telling the readers about them. And it occurred to me if my dad thinks I should have pictures, why don't I include some Escher? So then Escher came into the book and then I thought, well, this book is really full of art,. Full of references to art, full of references to music in some ways. Why don't I just call it goodll Escher Bach? Well, of course, to knowledgeable people, actually Escher wasn't very well known and goodll certainly wasn't known. Then I invented the subtitle, an internal golden b
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