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“[M]achines can be made to be totally unobservant; and people cannot.”

People Science Technology Observation Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Machines And Man

Book:Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

Source: Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

“[C]onsistency is not a property of a formal system per se, but depends on the interpretation which is proposed for it. By the same token, inconsistency is not an intrinsic property of any formal system.”

Science Logic Mathematics Interpretation Consistency Douglas Hofstadter Formal Logic Gödel S Incompleteness Theorem

Book:Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

Source: Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

“[M]eaning is part of an object to the extent that it acts upon intelligence in a predictable way.”

Science Intelligence Meaning Predictability Douglas Hofstadter Decipherment

Book:Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

Source: Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid