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“Douglas R. Hofstadter, an American researcher, speculates that the human mind has consciousness because it has the capability of self-reference. Since we can think about ourselves and think about ourselves thinking about ourselves, etc., we are capable of feeling that we are an "I". Contrast that with what we have learned in this chapter. This chapter tries to show that the computer's ability to perform self-reference is the cause of its limitations. Can we say that self-reference in computers brings limitations while in humans it causes consciousness? Perhaps.”
― The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us
― The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us
“the universe uses scientists to study itself.”
― The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us
― The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us
“Within environments capable of sustaining humans, there are constant tsunamis, volcanoes, earthquakes, hurricanes, mudslides, poisonous mushrooms, and lawyers, all of which make human life painfully fragile.”
― The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us
― The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us
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