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From: Don Stockbauer on 29 Jan 2010 10:07
On Jan 29, 4:39 am, Don Stockbauer <don.stockba...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 25, 6:28 am, Aatu Koskensilta <aatu.koskensi...(a)uta.fi> wrote:
>
> > DonStockbauer<don.stockba...(a)gmail.com> writes:
> > > Actually, Hofstadter does spend a lot of time on Godel's results in
> > > GEB
>
> > What is the relevance of this observation? As far as I can recall no one
> > here has claimed Hofstadter doesn't consider Gödel's theorems in some
> > detail in GEB.
>
> The wole quote is:
>
> Actually, Hofstadter does spend a lot of time on Godel's results in
> GEB, but the book's real value lies in getting people familiarized
> with the various memes which have formed/will refine the global
> brain.
>
> It's just being sneaky on my part.  The more times the global brain is
> mentioned, the more times the global brain meme resides in the global
> brain, and this causes self-awareness of the global brain meme within
> the global brain, and self-awareness translates into higher
> intelligence for the global brain  Don't you feel it all around you
> already, getting stronger every day, the global brain getting
> schmarter and schmarter?  You can?  Good.

Hey, Marshall Dillman: go ahead and respond. Besides the factor
mentioned above forming the global brain, any communication between
two systems at all also helps form it, so by getting you pissed off
and you stupidly replying that's a feeble form of communication, and
it thus forms the global brain.

Have a really nice day.
From: Don Stockbauer on 29 Jan 2010 10:12
1. Potential

2. Actualized
From: MoeBlee on 29 Jan 2010 11:42
On Jan 29, 9:12 am, Don Stockbauer <don.stockba...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> 1.  Potential
>
> 2.  Actualized

1. Don Stockbauer

2. Interesting

MoeBlee
From: Marshall on 29 Jan 2010 23:28
On Jan 29, 7:07 am, Don Stockbauer <don.stockba...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 29, 4:39 am, Don Stockbauer <don.stockba...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Jan 25, 6:28 am, Aatu Koskensilta <aatu.koskensi...(a)uta.fi> wrote:
> > > DonStockbauer<don.stockba...(a)gmail.com> writes:
> > > > Actually, Hofstadter does spend a lot of time on Godel's results in
> > > > GEB
>
> > > What is the relevance of this observation? As far as I can recall no one
> > > here has claimed Hofstadter doesn't consider Gödel's theorems in some
> > > detail in GEB.
>
> > The wole quote is:
>
> > Actually, Hofstadter does spend a lot of time on Godel's results in
> > GEB, but the book's real value lies in getting people familiarized
> > with the various memes which have formed/will refine the global
> > brain.
>
> > It's just being sneaky on my part.  The more times the global brain is
> > mentioned, the more times the global brain meme resides in the global
> > brain, and this causes self-awareness of the global brain meme within
> > the global brain, and self-awareness translates into higher
> > intelligence for the global brain  Don't you feel it all around you
> > already, getting stronger every day, the global brain getting
> > schmarter and schmarter?  You can?  Good.
>
> Hey, Marshall Dillman:  go ahead and respond.  Besides the factor
> mentioned above forming the global brain, any communication between
> two systems at all also helps form it, so by getting you pissed off
> and you stupidly replying that's a feeble form of communication, and
> it thus forms the global brain.
>
> Have a really nice day.

Ah, how this takes me back to a more innocent time! Back
in high school, GEB was an interesting book, the idea
of the global brain still seemed profound, and making fun
of people's names was what passed for wit.


Marshall
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