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Douglas Hofstadter — I Am A Strange Loop

Simulation

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The Infinite Singularity

All meaning comes from analogies. Douglas has argued that analogy is the core of cognition and I do agree with him quite a lot. Analogies also one of the core ways to understand the highest level abstractions. Eye indispensable ingredient self referential illusion. Infinity referencing itself generates emergent properties requiring a new vocabulary to describe them. So does that make sense everyone? I love you. We eye.

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