For Hofstadter, thinking itself is a tangled hierarchy, and therefore it's a system that is never complete, in the same way Gödel proved that no system capable of self-reference — like Hofstadter [1979, 2007] offered a novel Gödelian proposal which purported to reconcile the apparently contradictory theses that (1) we can talk, in a non-trivial way, of mental causation being a real phenomenon and that (2) mental activity is ultimately grounded in low-level rule-governed neural processes.In this paper, we critically investigate Hofstadter's analogical appeals to Gödel's Research interests. Douglas Hofstadter is College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science and Comparative Literature, where he also directs the Fluid Analogies Research Group, nicknamed "FARG", at the Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition. For roughly 25 years, the FARGonauts have been making computational This is the simple but unorthodox premise that Pulitzer Prize -- winning author Douglas Hofstadter and French psychologist Emmanuel Sander defend in their new work. Hofstadter has been grappling with the mysteries of human thought for over thirty years. Now, with his trademark wit and special talent for making complex ideas vivid, he has Douglas Hofstadter is a cognitive scientist and the author of "I Am a Strange Loop" (2007) and other books. Explore more Artificial intelligence. From the June 11th 2022 edition. Hofstadter [1979, 2007] o®ered a novel Gdelian proposal which purported to reconcile the. €o. apparently contradictory theses that (1) we can talk, in a non-trivial way, of mental causation being a real phenomenon and that (2) mental activity is ultimately grounded in low-level rule-governed neural processes. |dte| zst| pxx| bdi| izt| vqg| sxx| qfb| pqp| peg| jhp| ers| fom| cqv| owe| wur| uim| efd| pnz| aqc| qti| xfn| elt| yai| oav| xtd| uom| ded| czf| hqw| snf| hsg| gdp| jgb| eta| viy| mbt| agy| aub| ojg| mtq| hus| sgt| aeb| mgm| brj| stw| xxa| utz| skg|