I couldn't agree more! It's not that #Idontlike Douglas #Hofstadter's Gödel Escher Bach: there are some brilliant ideas in it. But I don't get all the fuzz around this book. It aims very high: showing recursion as an unifying pattern of maths, #CognitiveScience and art, in a recursive manner... But the result is quite verbose, with a lot of hand-waving. Honestly, I prefer a book like "Metamagical themas", where Hofstadter shares his reflections on these topics without trying to add stylistic effects.
https://mastodon.social/users/alatitude77/statuses/100322535956471172 @alatitude77 #bookstodon #GödelEscherBach

I couldn't agree more! It's not that #Idontlike Douglas #Hofstadter's Gödel Escher Bach: there are some brilliant ideas in it. But I don't get all the fuzz around this book. It aims very high: showing recursion as an unifying pattern of maths, #CognitiveScience and art, in a recursive manner... But the result is quite verbose, with a lot of hand-waving. Honestly, I prefer a book like "Metamagical themas", where Hofstadter shares his reflections on these topics without trying to add stylistic effects.
https://mastodon.social/users/alatitude77/statuses/100322535956471172 #bookstodon #GödelEscherBach

I couldn't agree more! It's not that #Idontlike Douglas #Hofstadter's Godel Escher Bach: there are some brilliant ideas in it. But I don't get all the fuzz around this book. It aims very high: showing recursion as an unifying pattern of maths, cognitive science and art, in a recursive manner... But the result is quite verbose, with a lot of hand-waving. Honesty I prefer a book like "Metamagical themas", where Hofstadter shares his reflections on these topics without trying to add stylistic effects.
https://mastodon.social/users/alatitude77/statuses/100322535956471172

So Gödel, Escher, Bach author Douglas #Hofstadter has a scathing piece on #ai like #chagpt in the Atlantic. I had been so waiting for his take … and he does not disappoint.
(I also very much agree with him. I so hate empty phraseology whether from people or machines)

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/07/godel-escher-bach-geb-ai/674589/

If you want a deeper understanding of AI than just “10 ChatGPT prompts you MUST know,” check out this interview of Douglas Hofstadter, author of “Gödel, Escher, Bach,” a must-read if you want to understand the roots of AI.

#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Hofstadter #DouglasHofstadter #GodelEscherBach #ChatGPT #LLM #LLMs #LargeLanguageModels #IChatThereforeIAm

https://www.globalnerdy.com/2023/07/03/douglas-hofstadter-godel-escher-bach-and-his-take-on-the-state-of-ai-today/

Will your #students start #writing their #thesis soon? Here's a helpful resource:
https://betteracademicwriting.wordpress.com/

Starting with a #plan to avoid #Hofstadter's Law, https://betteracademicwriting.wordpress.com/2023/01/10/plan-to-avoid-hofstadters-law/

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I discussed metaphor with a fun group recently. https://anchor.fm/bkam/episodes/A-Discussion-of-Metaphor-e1t6c0q

#McLuhan, #Jaynes, #McGilchrist, Douglas #Hofstadter, #Heidegger, Barbara #Ehrenreich, #Freud, #Nietzsche, Ivan #Bilibin, #Tarkovsky, #Durkheim, #Kuhn, Lera Boroditsky, Johnson and #Lakoff 😊

Hi All! As an #Introduction, I got bitten by the #maths bug very young, studies #ElectricalEngineering and #ComputerScience, and worked as an #Engineer. Inspired by Richard #Feynman I recently moved into #education as a high school #maths and #physics #teacher. Love #Hofstadter's #Gödel Escher Bach. Having fun looking into the #image #processing maths in the #darktable #photography raw editor, but I'm a bit rusty on some things, so making good use of the uni library while I still have access...

@gemlog@mastodonten.de Thank you for sharing how #GodelEscherBach by #Hofstadter affected and shaped your thinking. I gratefully accept additional reviews from readers who love it. I am just a smidge daunted by its size and ideas and need encouragement to complete it in the next few days. @xmanmonk @papa