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I've never heard a complete and convincing explanation for what "yourself" could be, but meditating on the extreme unintuitiveness of self-reference and recursi
by pistachiopro 7y ago
I've never heard a complete and convincing explanation for what "yourself" could be, but meditating on the extreme unintuitiveness of self-reference and recursion (a la Douglas Hofstadter's I am a Strange Loop) increases my expectation that a computational explanation is coming, eventually.
- antonvs 7y agoI think that's pretty wishful thinking. It's not like we don't have a lot of experience with self-reference and recursion in computational systems. In fact this site is named after that. I don't think the Y combinator is conscious.