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I think something similar has been suggested in the book called Godel,Escher,Bach.
by zzo38computer 7y ago
I think something similar has been suggested in the book called Godel,Escher,Bach.
- ragebol 7y agoWas thinking the same thing, that is the character 'Aunt Hillary', which is an ant hill. In the Dutch translation (which I read years ago) she's called 'Myra Hoop'. Funny how those translation still make sense, same as in the Harry Potter universe where the names even have to be anagrams.
- tgvaughan 7y agoIt's not an accident: Hofstadter and the translators put a lot of work into preserving the wordplay across translations. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach#Translation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach#Tra...
- sings 7y agoThat’s what I thought as soon as I read the title. Aunt Hillary, the anteaters favourite companion. The anteater describes to Achilles how emergent properties of intelligence are coded into the movements of the ants in the network. Great book!