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“It sometimes feels as if I had shouted a deeply cherished message out into an empty chasm and nobody heard me.”
― Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
― Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
“To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.”
― Auguries of Innocence
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.”
― Auguries of Innocence
“Historically, people have been naive about what qualities, if mechanized, would undeniably constitute intelligence. Is intelligence an ability to integrate functions symbolically? If so, then AI already exists, since symbolic integration routines outdo the best people in most cases.
If intelligence involves learning, creativity, emotional responses, a sense of beauty, a sense of self, then there is a long road ahead, and it may be that these will only be realized when we have totally duplicated a living brain.”
― Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
If intelligence involves learning, creativity, emotional responses, a sense of beauty, a sense of self, then there is a long road ahead, and it may be that these will only be realized when we have totally duplicated a living brain.”
― Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
“Now what is "music"–a sequence of vibrations in the air, or a succession of emotional responses in the brain?”
― GODEL, ESCHER Y BACH
― GODEL, ESCHER Y BACH
“Consistent or inconsistent, no one is exempt from the mystery of the self. Probably we are all inconsistent. Te world is just too complicated for a person to be able to afford the luxury of reconciling all of his beliefs with each other. Tension and confusion are important in a world where many decisions must be made quickly. Miguel de Unamuno once said, 'If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.' I would say that we all are in the same boast as the Zen master who, after contradicting himself several times in a row, said to the confused Doko, 'I cannot understand myself.”
― Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
― Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Sukaina’s 2024 Year in Books
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