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AI for Behavioural Science
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AI for Behavioural Science

by Stuart Mills
December 2022
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
130 pages
4h 18m
English
CRC Press
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5 Some Concluding Discussions

DOI: 10.1201/9781003203315-6

Strange Loops and Strange Realities

Sherry Turkle (2004 [1984]) argues many computer scientists coming of age in the 1980s were influenced by Douglas R. Hofstadter’s (2000 [1979]) book Gödel, Escher, Bach. The book focuses on the concept of the “strange loop” (p. 10), which is the name Hofstadter (2000 [1979]) gives to phenomena which emerge through self-reference and repetition. Such a concept is important in computer science because of the technique of recursion; used in functions which reference themselves, as briefly discussed in Chapter 2. Hofstadter (2000 [1979]) argues strange loops represent an “Eternal Golden Braid” through human thought, and indeed, perhaps throughout ...

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