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Re:Douglas Hofstadter has a new book by stephencanon on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @02:59PM (#5488275)
You’ll need to convince me that “e^ipi = -1” is actually a “thought" before I’ll buy it as a counter example. This will be an uphill battle.

Can you think about Euler’s identity? Almost certainly. Can you think Euler’s identity? Very unclear.

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Re:Douglas Hofstadter has a new book by derleth on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @03:45PM (#5488531)
> You’ll need to convince me that “e^ipi = -1” is actually a “thought"

Then what is it?

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Re:Douglas Hofstadter has a new book by zwischenzug on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @05:36PM (#5489311)
A statement of grammar? A picture? A string of characters?

What would a thought in print look like? And what print with any meaning at all would not "be a thought" in ordinary parlance?

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Re:Douglas Hofstadter has a new book by derleth on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @08:58PM (#5490312)
> And what print with any meaning at all would not "be a thought" in ordinary parlance?

Exactly my point.

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Re:Douglas Hofstadter has a new book by ThomPete on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @04:05PM (#5488680)
a pattern if repeated enough times.
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