One of my favourite books of all time. ( GEB )
Have you read the "User Illusion" by  Tor Norretranders ?
http://www.amazon.com/User-Illusion-Cutting-Consciousness-Penguin/dp/0140230122
Gus

> On Mar 22, 2010, at 6:39 AM, Russell McMahon wrote:
>
>>> "SHRDLU", toy of man's designing :-(
>
>      >>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHRDLU
>
>>> (Even) Bach was here ...
>
>> A truly awful hybrid of Pun & Koan, Russell  :)
>
> Indeed.
> Not of my making. (Alas and/or I'm pleased to say).
>
> Reading through the Godel Escher Bach page referenced will bring you
> to it AND is arguably quite worthwhile as an introduction to what
> people are up to in other fields..
>
>>     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach:_An_Eternal_Golden_Braid
>
> My son is doing a Masters in philosophy and I sent it on to him as
> being of obvious interest. I imagine that not all AI researchers are
> as "weird" as Hofstadter needs to be to write such stuff, but someone
> has to be to allow progress in understanding something as
> ununderstandable as the human mind.
>
> A SHRDLU conversation is spookily reminiscent of a session with Alex,
> the (now dead,alas) African Grey Parrot whose level of understanding
> seemed about the same.
>
>

           Russell

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