These things are going to look primitive to you, but you have to remember that we’re not stupid. We have the same intelligence as you. We simply don’t have the same cumulative knowledge you do. So we apply our intelligence to what we have.

Warren Ellis
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If you are not already familiar with the work of Douglas Hofstadter, you should take some time to learn more about it. He is an American physicist and author best known for his work in the fields of mathematics, psychology, and cognitive science. He graduated from Harvard University in 1956. Hofstadter has written several books on the topics of philosophy, science, and technology.

His most famous work is Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid (1979). It is a book that consists of two related essays; the first essay is called “Paradoxes of Pure Reason” and the second essay is called “The Metamagical Theorem of Laplace.” Both essays are about Gödel’s incompleteness theorem in formal logic. Even though this book was written in 1979, many people consider it one of the best nonfiction books about science ever published.

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