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art-of-mathematics · 1 year

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Recently I travelled with the tram and started to draw the letter sculptures depicted on the cover of the of the book "Gödel Escher Bach".

... close enough...

It was a fun lil exercise.

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mthvn · 2 years

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Metahaven, Feelium, insert for Real Review No. 12, Spring 2022. “Feelium” is a hypothetical substance (and joke) proposed by Douglas Hofstadter as part of a discussion of recursive phenomena in mind and mathematics. “Unfortunately,” he writes, “no one has ever found a single atom or molecule of feelium, and I suspect that even if we did find a mysterious substance present in all higher animals but not in lower ones, let alone in mere machines, you would start wondering how it could be that any mere substance, inanimate and insensate on its own, could give rise to sensation.” (Douglas Hofstadter, I am a Strange Loop, New York: Basic Books, 2007, 288.)

#metahaven #realreview #hofstadter #feelium

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shtufffy · 2 years

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The mathematician's sense of tension is intimately related to his sense of beauty, and is what makes mathematics worthwhile doing.

Douglas R. Hofstadter

#quote #douglas r. hofstadter #hofstadter #godel #kurt godel #godel escher bach #kurt gödel #m. c. escher #math #mathematics #mathematician #beauty #logic #reason

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humblevictory · 10 months

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#hofstadter #chat #gpt4 #consciousness

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elzorab · 1 year

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Working on my Metamagical Themas Essay collection by Hofstadter #book #collection #math #logic #philosophy #essay #writing #books #hofstadter https://www.instagram.com/p/CmcsNILJw94/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#book #collection #math #logic #philosophy #essay #writing #books #hofstadter

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littlevampie222 · 1 year

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“A primary feature of quarks is that they're always bonded together, but in that moment, I felt like a neutrino, destined to be alone forever.”

Just as young Sheldon Cooper was crying because he thought he'd always be alone and have no friends... they show this.

When I tell you I cried watching this last night... 😭 😭 😭

#Young Sheldon #Big Bang Theory #Sheldon Cooper #Leonard Hofstadter #Howard Wolowitz #Raj Koothrappali #Bernadette Rostenkowski #Amy Farrah Fowler #penny hofstadter

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eloquence-of-felicities · 9 months

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Barbie : The Movie - Dir. Greta Gerwig (2023)

#barbie #barbie movie #barbie 2023 #the barbie movie #margot robbie #ryan gosling #ken barbie #and ken #barbieedit #greta gerwig #sheldon cooper #penny hofstadter #kaley cuoco #jim parsons #humour #humor #meme #my edit

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rgbcn · 5 months

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Barbie VS Oppenheimer (TBBT version)

I was late to the meme but a dear friend game me the idea of Raj going to see Barbie with the girls, I had to draw it! hehe

If you like my comics and fanart you can support me on Patreon.com/rgbcn where you can see before anyone what I'm working on, decide what I draw next, see unc3nsor3d content and also get the HQ downloads of my drawings.

Hope it makes you laugh! Thank you!!

R

#tbbt #the big bang theory #shamy #lenny #howardette #rajesh koothrappali #sheldon cooper #amy farrah fowler #leonard hofstadter #penny hofstadter #howard wolowitz #bernadette rostenkowski #barbie #oppenheimer #barbie vs oppenheimer #bigbangtheory

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art-of-mathematics · 2 years

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Yesterday I had this severely hilarious idea of a kind of parody of Douglas Hofstadter's brilliant book "Gödel Escher Bach - an eternal golden braid":

"Knödelgödel, Klumpenescher, Brotbach - an eternal golden bread"

(I fused German with English for that one, so I have to explain:

- Knödel is a dumpling

- Klumpen is a clump/nugget

- Brot is bread.

--Secondly,

Th idea behind it includes topics of topology in addition to brilliant ideas discussed in Hofstadter's book about Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems.

One aspect of my silly idea includes "grouping" everday stuff according to how their main shapes look:

Silly topological classification of everyday life items/bodies/stuff:

- "Strick" - string [looks/appears primarily 1D] {includes: cables, wool strings, ribbons, sewing string,...}

- "Lappen" - cloth [looks/appears primarily 2D] {includes: curtains, blankets, cloth, piecs of paper}

- "Klumpen" - clump/nugget: [looks/appears primarily 3D] {includes: balls, potatoes, entire breads (not thin slices), whatever...}

- "Sack" - sack, like a clump in which you can insert stuff [3D and insertable, more complex manifold] {includes: bags, pillow bags, trash bags...}

- "Knödel" - dumpling: a really fuzzy manifold with many notches and a rather large degree of unsmoothness [one of the the most complex manifolds in that classification method] {includes: complex biological bodies: fur dumplings (cats, dogs,... any animal with fur), humans (or fur dumplings with very few fur),... other stuff...}

(On a side note: what category would a tube occupy? As it could be both regarded as "Strick" as well as" Sack"....)

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furiouswithoutthefast · 4 months

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More people in tbbt fandom need to talk about the potential Raj, Howard, and Bernadette had as a throuple. Bernadette and Howard obviously like each other as they married but Raj also liked Bernadette for some time. That even made Raj and Howard kiss once, albeit on accident. And Raj and Howard are extremely close, enough that Bernadette sometimes calls Raj Howard’s boyfriend. This is prime for a polyamorous relationship.

Also, Amy and Penny being girlfriends but that’s not related.

Edit: it’s implied that Howard used to call Raj ‘honey’

#rajesh koothrappali #raj #leonard hofstadter #sheldon cooper #howard wolowitz #tbbt #the big bang theory #penny tbbt #amy farrah fowler #bernadette rostenkowski #raj x Howard #bernadette x howard #bernadette x howard x raj #penny x amy

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sitting-on-me-bum · 27 days

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Two spotted owls perched on a tree in a Northern California forest.

Photograph by Danny Hofstadter

#danny hofstadter #photographer #spottled owls #owls #animal #bird photography #northern california #forest #nature

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exhaled-spirals · 15 days

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« Today’s AI technology allows people of different cultures to communicate instantly and effortlessly with one another. Wow! Isn’t that a centuries-long dream come true, weaving the world ever more tightly together? Isn’t it a wonderful miracle? Isn’t the soon-to-arrive world where everyone can effortlessly speak every language just glorious?

Some readers will certainly say “yes,” but I would say “no.” In fact, I see this looming scenario as a great tragedy. I see it as the beginning of the end of the age-old tradition of learning foreign languages [...]. The problem is that people of all cultures instinctively follow the path of least resistance.

Today’s young people [...] who grow up with translation software, will not be lured in the same way that I, as a teenager, was lured by the fantastic, surrealistic goal of internalizing another language. They won’t feel the slightest temptation to devote a major fraction of their lives to slowly and arduously acquiring the sounds, vocabulary, grammar, and cultural richness of another language. To them, someone with my self-punishing attitude would seem hopelessly wedded to the past. Why on earth cling to riding a horse or a bicycle for transportation, when you can drive a car (not to mention flying in an airplane)? [...]

[I]t strikes me as possible—in fact, quite likely—that humans are collectively going to knuckle under and throw in the towel as far as foreign languages are concerned. [...] As my friend David Moser put it, what may soon go down the drain forever, thanks to these new AI technologies, is the precious gift that one can gain only by immersing oneself deeply in another culture and thereby acquiring an entirely new set of ways of looking at the world. It’s a gift that can’t help but turn any human being into a far richer and broader one. But David fears that it may soon become as rare as hen’s teeth.

[...I]t’s incredibly depressing to contemplate the profound impoverishment of people’s mental and emotional lives that is looming just around every corner of the globe, thanks to the slick seductiveness of AI translation apps, insidiously creeping their way into ordinary people’s lives and sapping their desire to make other tongues their own.

When children first hear the sounds of another language, they can’t help but wonder: What in the world would it feel like to speak that language? Such eager childlike curiosity might seem universal and irrepressible. But what if that human curiosity is suddenly snuffed out forever by the onrushing tsunami of AI? When we collectively abandon the age-old challenge of learning the languages of other lands, when we relinquish that challenge to ultrarapid machines that have no inner life of their own but are able to give us fluent but fake facades in other languages, then we will have lost a major part of what it is to be human and alive. »

— Douglas Hofstadter, "Learn a Foreign Language Before It’s Too Late"

#quote #article #douglas hofstadter #ai #languages #english

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thesheengalleon · 5 months

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New hyper fixation just dropped 🗣️‼️