Why couldn't Hellen Keller drive?

Ghoulish Delight · 02-17-2006, 07:09 PM

3 things...

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* GEB is by Hofstedter, not Dreyfus

* Hofstedter actually is quite convinced that the Goedel limitations of the underlying hardware does not preclude intelligence that runs on such hardware.

Alex · 02-17-2006, 07:16 PM

Whoops, yes. Not sure why Hubert Dreyfus popped into my head. What you say in point 3 is not my recollection of Godel Escher Bach, but it has been about six years since I last read any of this stuff so maybe I'm just all kinds of screwed up in my memories of it.

Now I'll have to go look.

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Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	Whoops, yes. Not sure why Hubert Dreyfus popped into my head. What you say in point 3 is not my recollection of Godel Escher Bach, but it has been about six years since I last read any of this stuff so maybe I'm just all kinds of screwed up in my memories of it. Now I'll have to go look.
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