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Common terms and phrasesAchilles answer Anteater arithmetical axiom Babbage Bach BlooP brain Buddha-nature called cell Chapter chess chunked Church-Turing Thesis complex course Crab Canon derivation Dialogue enzyme Epimenides paradox example fact fantasy FIGURE FlooP formal system formula fugue geometry Godel Godel number Godel's Theorem happens high-level human idea infinite inside instance interpretation involves isomorphism kind koan look M. C. Escher machine language mathematicians mathematics matter meaning mind MlU-system Mumon natural numbers neurons notion number theory paradox patterns perhaps piece play pq-system problem procedure proof Propositional Calculus proteins question reason record player recursive rules of inference seems self-reference sense sentence SHRDLU simple statement Strange Loops string structure symbols tell theorem of TNT things thought tion Tortoise translation triggering true Turing typographical understand variable well-formed words References to this bookFrom Google ScholarStructure and Interpretation of Computer ProgramsHarold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman The Conscious MindDavid J Chalmers The Explicit Economics of Knowledge Codification and TacitnessRobin Cowan, Paul A David, Dominique Foray - Industrial and Corporate Change The Fabric of RealityDAVID DEUTSCH, PENGUIN BOOKS Bibliographic information |