[comp.ai] The Dave Peru School of Mental Masturbation

peru@soleil.UUCP (Dave Peru) (10/21/88)

There's something missing from figure 18 on p.71 of
"Godel, Escher, Bach ..." by Douglas R. Hofstadter.

smoliar@vaxa.isi.edu (Stephen Smoliar) (10/26/88)

In article <439@soleil.UUCP> peru@soleil.UUCP (Dave Peru) writes:
>There's something missing from figure 18 on p.71 of
>"Godel, Escher, Bach ..." by Douglas R. Hofstadter.


Since you probably don't mean "a sensible approach to illustration," I would
argue that the Figure doesn't amount to much unless it allocates space to the
rules of inference.  (Or do you regard them as involately static as Bach's
greatness?)