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…biased assimilation” causes us to “interpret ambiguous events in light of what we already believe.” Discussing Richard Hofstadter’s 1964 essay “The Paranoid Style in American Politics,” Mr. Brotherton accepts Hofstadter’s characterization of proponents of politically motivated c...

…- gence. Neuron vol. 76 issue 6, 2012. Hib02. Bill Hibbard. Superintelligent Machines. Springer, 2002. Hof79. Douglas Hofstadter. Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. Basic, 1979. Hof95. Douglas Hofstadter. Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies. Basic Books, 1995. Ho...

…"biased assimilation" causes us to "interpret ambiguous events in light of what we already believe." Discussing Richard Hofstadter's 1964 essay "The Paranoid Style in American Politics," Mr. Brotherton accepts Hofstadter's characterization of proponents of politically motivated c...

much like Hofstadter’s earlier Copycat architecture [Hof95]

…'t Do. New Ed. OUP Oxford, 2003. Hawkins, Jeff, and Sandra Blakeslee. On Intelligence. Reprint. Owl Books (NY), 2005. Hofstadter, Douglas R. Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. 20th Anniversary ed. Penguin, 2000. Howell, E. From Darness Light/Land of Stone/Shadow Wor...

…philosophy of Charles Peirce [Pei34], in the writings of contempo- rary philosophers Daniel Dennett [Den91] and Douglas Hofstadter [Hof79, Hof96], in Benjamin Whorf’s [Who64] linguistic philosophy and Gregory Bateson’s [Bat79] systems theory of mind and nature. Bateson spoke of t...

…ents in connectionist architecture relations, types, entities and causal rules using focal-clusters. However, much like Hofstadter’s earlier Copycat architecture [Hof95], Shruti seems more interesting as a prototype exploration of ideas than as a practical AGI system; at least, a...

… to escape engineering for a couple of weeks. While away I indulge my passion for reading books by the likes of Douglas Hofstadter, David Deutsch and Stephen Hawking. One book that struck me years ago was Roger Penrose’s The Emperors New Mind. In it, he tackles the question of wh...

…ny computer systems have been designed to tackle creativity. We have already met the composer Emily Howell and Douglass Hofstadter’s computation program. Here are two more examples: Jape and AARON, which create jokes and art, respectively. Jape — Joke Analysis and Production Eng...

… a knob that can take on values corresponding to multiple possible movements. Following a metaphor suggested by Douglas Hofstadter [Hof96], MOSES learning covers both “knob twiddling” (setting the values of knobs) and “knob creation.” MOSES is invoked within CogPrime in a number...

…ion — to sift and prune the connections until something bubbles to the surface and we get that, ‘aha’ feeling. Douglas Hofstadter, Professor of Cognitive Science at Indiana University, famous for the book Gédel Escher Bach, has written a computer program using pattern matching t...

…ken's famous phrase: "It is IMPOSSIBLE to underestimate the intelligence of the American people." and then from Richard Hofstadter's 1964 book on Ant-intellectualism in American Life: "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of ant...

…of Intelligence Zk SS Fig. 15.7: A fanciful evocation of part of a reader’s conceptual heterarchy related to Douglas Hofstadter’s writings. ongoing work. One of the nice things about emergent network structures is that they are rel- atively straightforward to observe in an ev...