Book Review: Douglas R. Hofstadter: "Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid."

Davis, William Watts Hart

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“…. The existence of mind, for example, is an abstract, holistic organisational pattern, capable even of disembodiment, refuting the reductionist philosophy that we are all nothing but a moving mound of atoms' (Davies 1983). We no longer believe with Hume that we can locate the self, the subject, somewhere amongst its own perceptions.…”

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“…In Bohr's view the act of observation itself materialises the atomic structure of that part of the Universe being studied, turning a ghostly uncertainty into a real event. 'The common division of the world into subjective and objective, inner and outer world, body and soul is no longer adequate' (Werner Hensenberg, quoted in Davies (1983), p 112).…”

Section: We Live In a Self-organising Universementioning

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The implications of reductionist physics for human culpability

Bligh¹

1989

Phys. Educ.

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The implications of reductionist physics for human culpability

Bligh¹

1989

Phys. Educ.

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“…The last one triggers the first. In the corresponding 'score' (3) a rhythmic loop (4) evolves, right away. A resulting rhythmic loop indicates a loop in the directed graph.…”

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“…The presented system shows similarities with different model definitions that involve networked entities, like (Augmented) Transitional Networks / Petri Nets, Multi-Agent Networks, and some forms of Neural Networks, though it cannot be clearly categorized as a specific type. The closest relations I was able to identify are with Douglas Hofstadter's definition of an 'actor model' [3], which, as agent-based systems in general, shares behavioral characteristics with the conceptually related cellular automata [1] [4].…”

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Agent-Based Rhythm Generation

Poeser

Algorithmic Pattern Salon

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This study examines systems of interconnected autonomous (1) agents that can each play a sound and over time create a rhythmic pattern, following simple rules based on delayed triggering of other agents.The parameters of each system were defined in xml format. Software applications to model and 'play' a system, and to generate five different visual representations were developed in Processing (2) (Java).The aim of the study was to start at all an investigation into the possibilities of agent-based systems to generate rhythmic patterns, as well as testing the potential for rhythmic patterns to be represented in other ways (in contrast to common musical rhythm notation).Four randomly generated systems with increasing structural complexity were examined. Methods to remove redundancies from certain system configurations are presented. The study also shows how directed graph diagrams can be restructured in ways that make it easier to identify loops in the system. It becomes apparent, that any such system can be transformed into a linear trigger-chain structure. The new structure generates the same rhythmic pattern and, by abandoning inner loops, produces diagrams of reduced visual complexity. These diagrams can function as alternative notation systems. All example systems generate stable rhythmic patterns. These loops differ in lengths as well as the time needed to reach stability within the delay & trigger-propagation system. Links to sound-files that demonstrate the audible output of each example system are provided.Further studies will focus on more structured and automated generation processes to find possible correlations of parameters as given in the definition data and the different forms of representation of the system, including its manifestation as an audible rhythm. see: https://processing.org (2) November 2023 'autonomous' here refers to the agents not being centrally controlled, but each acting by its own rules upon incoming signals (1)

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Isomorphism, Decipherment, Symbol

Johnson

1988

Mind, Language, Machine

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Book Review: Douglas R. Hofstadter: "Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid."

Cited by 6 publications

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The implications of reductionist physics for human culpability

The implications of reductionist physics for human culpability

Agent-Based Rhythm Generation

Isomorphism, Decipherment, Symbol

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