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==[[CHAPTER 1: THE MU-PUZZLE]]==
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*[[Formal Systems]]
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*[[Inside and Outside the System]]
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*[[Jumping out of the System]]
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==[[CHAPTER 2: MEANING AND FORM IN MATHEMATICS]]==
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*[[The Basic Laws of Arithmetic]]
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*[[Getting Around Infinity]]
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==[[CHAPTER 3: FIGURE AND GROUND]]==
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==[[CHAPTER 4: CONSISTENCY, COMPLETENESS, AND GEOMETRY]]==
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*[[Implicit and Explicit Meaning]]
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*[[Explicit Meaning of the Contracrostipunctus]]
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*[[Implicit Meanings of the Contracrostipunctus]]
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*[[Mapping Between the Contracrostipunctus and Gödel's Theorem]]
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*[[The Art of the Fugue]]
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*[[The Modified pq-System and Inconsistency]]
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*[[The History of Euclidean Geometry]]
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*[[The Many Faces of Noneuclid]]
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*[[Undefined Terms]]
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*[[The Possibility of Multiple Interpretations]]
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*[[Varieties of Consistency]]
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*[[Hypothetical Worlds and Consistency]]
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*[[Embedding of One Formal System in Another]]
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*[[Layers of Stability in Visual Perception]]
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*[[Is Mathematics the Same in Every Conceivable World?]]
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*[[Is Number Theory the Same in All Conceivable Worlds?]]
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*[[Completeness]]
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*[[How an Interpretation May Make or Break Completeness]]
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*[[Incompleteness of Formalized Number Theory]]
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*[[Little Harmonic Labyrinth]]
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==[[CHAPTER 5: RECURSIVE STRUCTURES AND PROCESSES]]==
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*[[What Is Recursion?]]
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*[[Pushing, Popping, and Stacks]]
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*[[Stacks in Music]]
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*[[Recursion in Language]]
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*[[Recursive Transition Networks]]
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*[[Bottoming Out" and Heterarchies"]]
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*[[Expanding Nodes]]
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*[[Diagram G and Recursive Sequences]]
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*[[A Chaotic Sequence]]
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*[[Two Striking Recursive Graphs]]
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*[[Recursion at the Lowest Level of Matter]]
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*[[Copies and Sameness]]
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*[[Programming and Recursion: Modularity, Loops, Procedures]]
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*[[Recursion in Chess Programs]]
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==[[CHAPTER 6: THE LOCATION OF MEANING]]==
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*[[When is One Thing Not Always the Same?]]
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*[[Information-Bearers and Information-Revealers]]
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*[[DNA and the Necessity of Chemical Context]]
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*[[An Unlikely UFO]]
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*[[Levels of Understanding of a Message]]
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*[[Imaginary Spacescape]]
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*[[The Heroic Decipherers]]
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*[[Three Layers of Any Message]]
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*[[Schrödinger's Aperiodic Crystals]]
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*[[Languages for the Three Levels]]
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*[[The Jukebox" Theory of Meaning"]]
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*[[Against the Jukebox Theory]]
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*[[Meaning Is Intrinsic If Intelligence is Natural]]
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*[[Earth Chauvinism]]
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*[[Two Plaques in Space]]
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*[[Bach vs. Cage Again]]
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*[[How Universal Is DNA's Message?]]
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==[[CHAPTER 7: THE PROPOSITIONAL CALCULUS]]==
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*[[Alphabet and First Rule of the Propositional Calculus]]
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*[[More Rules of Inference]]
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*[[The Fantasy Rule]]
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*[[Recursion and the Fantasy Rule]]
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*[[The Converse of the Fantasy Rule]]
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*[[The Intended Interpretation of the Symbols]]
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*[[Rounding Out the List of Rules]]
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*[[Justifying the Rules]]
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*[[Playing Around with the System]]
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*[[Is There a Decision Procedure for Theorems?]]
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*[[Do We Know the System Is Consistent?]]
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*[[The Carroll Dialogue Again]]
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*[[Shortcuts and Derived Rules]]
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*[[Reflections on the Strengths and Weaknesses of the System]]
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==[[CHAPTER 8: TYPOGRAPHICAL NUMBER THEORY]]==
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*[[What We Want to Be Able to Express in TNT]]
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*[[Atoms and Propositional Symbols]]
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*[[Tricks of the Trade]]
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*[[Translation Puzzles for You]]
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*[[How to Distinguish True from False?]]
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*[[The Rules of Well-Formedness]]
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*[[A Few More Translation Exercises]]
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*[[A Nontypographical System]]
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*[[The Five Axioms and First Rules of TNT]]
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*[[The Five Peano Postulates]]
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*[[New Rules of TNT: Specification and Generalization]]
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*[[The Existential Quantifier]]
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*[[Rules of Equality and Successorship]]
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*[[Illegal Shortcuts]]
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*[[Why Specification and Generalization Are Restricted]]
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*[[Something Is Missing]]
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*[[omega-Incomplete Systems and Undecidable Strings]]
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*[[Non-Euclidean TNT]]
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*[[omega-Inconsistency Is Not the Same as Inconsistency]]
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*[[The Last Rule]]
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*[[A Long Derivation]]
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*[[Tension and Resolution in TNT]]
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*[[Formal Reasoning vs. Informal Reasoning]]
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*[[Number Theorists Go out of Business]]
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*[[Hilbert's Program]]
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*[[A Mu Offering]]
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==[[CHAPTER 9: MUMON AND GÖDEL]]==
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*[[What is Zen?]]
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*[[Zen Master Mumon]]
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*[[Zen's Struggle Against Dualism]]
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*[[Ism, The Un-Mode, and Unmon]]
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*[[Zen and Tumbolia]]
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*[[Escher and Zen]]
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*[[Hemiolia and Escher]]
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*[[Indra's Net]]
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*[[Mumon on MU]]
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*[[From Mumon to the MU-puzzle]]
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*[[Mumon Shows Us How to Solve the MU-puzzle]]
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*[[Gödel-Numbering the MIU-System]]
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*[[Seeing Things Both Typographically and Arithmetically]]
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*[[MIU-Producible Numbers]]
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*[[Answering Questions about Producible Numbers by Consulting TNT]]
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*[[The Dual Nature of MUMON]]
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*[[The Boomerang: Gödel-Numbering TNT]]
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*[[TNT-Numbers: A Recursively Enumerable Set of Numbers]]
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*[[TNT Tries to Swallow Itself]]
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*[[G: A String Which Talks about Itself in Code]]
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*[[G's Existence Is What Causes TNT's Incompleteness]]
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*[[Mumon Has the Last Word]]==
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=[[PART II: EGB]]=
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*[[Prelude...]]
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==[[CHAPTER 10: LEVELS OF DESCRIPTION, AND COMPUTER SYSTEMS]]==
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*[[Levels of Description]]
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*[[Microprogramming and Operating Systems]]
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*[[Are Computers Super-Flexible or Super-Rigid?]]
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*[[Second-Guessing the Programmer]]
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*[[AI Advanced Are Language Advances]]
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*[[The Paranoid and the Operating System]]
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*[[The Border between Software and Hardware]]
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*[[Intermediate Levels and the Weather]]
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*[[From Tornados to Quarks]]
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*[[Superconductivity: A Paradox" of Renormalization"]]
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*[[Sealing-off]]
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*[[The Trade-off between Chunking and Determinism]]
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*[[Computers Can Only Do What You Tell Them to Do]]
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*[[Epiphenomena]]
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*[[Mind vs. Brain]]
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==[[CHAPTER 11: BRAINS AND THOUGHTS]]==
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*[[New Perspectives on Thought]]
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*[[Intensionality and Extensionality]]
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*[[The Brain's Ants]]
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*[[Larger Structures in the Brain]]
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*[[Mappings between Brains]]
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*[[Localization of Brain Processes: An Enigma]]
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*[[Specificity in Visual Processing]]
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*[[A Grandmother Cell"?"]]
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*[[Funneling into Neural Modules]]
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*[[Modules Which Mediate Thought Processes]]
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*[[Active Symbols]]
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*[[Classes and Instances]]
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*[[The Prototype Principle]]
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*[[The Difficulty of Disentangling Symbols from Each Other]]
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*[[Symbols -- Software or Hardware?]]
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*[[Liftability of Intelligence]]
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*[[Can One Symbol Be Isolated?]]
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*[[The Symbols of Insects]]
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*[[Class Symbols and Imaginary Worlds]]
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*[[Intuitive Laws of Physics]]
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*[[Procedural and Declarative Knowledge]]
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*[[Visual Imagery]]
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*[[English French German Suite]]
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==[[CHAPTER 12: MINDS AND THOUGHTS]]==
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*[[Can Minds Be Mapped onto Each Other?]]
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*[[Comparing Different Semantic Networks]]
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*[[Translations of Jabberwocky]]
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*[[ASU's]]
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*[[A Surprise Reversal]]
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*[[Centrality and Universality]]
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*[[How Much Do Language and Culture Channel Thought?]]
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*[[Trips and Itineraries in ASU's]]
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*[[Possible, Potential, and Preposterous Pathways]]
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*[[Different Styles of Translating Novels]]
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*[[High-Level Comparisons between Programs]]
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*[[High-Level Comparisons between Brains]]
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*[[Potential Beliefs, Potential Symbols]]
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*[[Where is the Sense of Self?]]
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*[[Subsystems]]
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*[[Subsystems and Shared Code]]
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*[[The Self-Symbol and Consciousness]]
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*[[Our First Encounter with Lucas]]
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*[[Aria with Diverse Variations]]
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==[[CHAPTER 13: BlooP AND FlooP AND GlooP]]==
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*[[Self-Awareness and Chaos]]
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*[[Representability and Refrigerators]]
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*[[Ganto's Ax in Metamathmatics]]
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*[[Finding Order by Choosing the Right Filter]]
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*[[Primordial Steps of the Language BlooP]]
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*[[Conventions of BlooP]]
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*[[Automatic Chunking]]
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*[[BlooP Tests]]
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*[[BlooP Programs Contain Chains of Procedures]]
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*[[Suggested Exercises]]
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*[[Expressibility and Representability]]
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*[[Primitive Recursive Predicates Are Represented in TNT]]
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*[[Are There Functions Which Are Not Primitive Recursive?]]
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*[[Pool B, Index Numbers, and Blue Programs]]
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*[[The Diagonal Method]]
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*[[Cantor's Original Diagonal Argument]]
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*[[What Does a Diagonal Argument Prove?]]
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*[[The Insidious Repeatability of the Diagonal Argument]]
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*[[From BlooP to FlooP]]
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*[[Terminating and Nonterminating FlooP Programs]]
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*[[Turing's Trickery]]
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*[[Pool F, Index Numbers, and Green Programs]]
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*[[The Termination Tester Gives Us Red Programs]]
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*[[GlooP...]]
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*[[...Is a Myth]]
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*[[The Church-Turing Thesis]]
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*[[Terminology: General and Partial Recursive]]
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*[[The Power of TNT]]
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*[[Air on G's String]]
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==[[CHAPTER 14: ON FORMALLY UNDECIDABLE PROPOSITIONS OF TNT AND RELATED SYSTEMS]]==
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*[[The Two Ideas of the Oyster]]
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*[[The First Idea: Proof-Pairs]]
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*[[Proof-Pair-ness Is Primitive Recursive...]]
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*[[...And Is Therefore Represented in TNT]]
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*[[The Power of Proof-Pairs]]
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*[[Substitution Leads to the Second Idea]]
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*[[Arithmoquining]]
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*[[The Last Straw]]
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*[[TNT Says Uncle!]]
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*[[Yields Nontheoremhood When Arithmoquined]]
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*[[Gödel's Second Theorem]]
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*[[TNT Is \\omega-Incomplete]]
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*[[Two Different Ways to Plug Up the Hole]]
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*[[Supernatural Numbers]]
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*[[Supernatural Theorems Have Infinitely Long Derivations]]
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*[[Supernatural Addition and Multiplication]]
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*[[Supernaturals Are Useful...]]
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*[[...But Are They Real?]]
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*[[Bifurcations in Geometry, and Physicists]]
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*[[Bifurcations in Number Theory, and Bankers]]
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*[[Bifurcations in Number Theory, and Metamathematicians]]
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==[[CHAPTER 15: JUMPING OUT OF THE SYSTEM]]==
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*[[A More Powerful Formal System]]
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*[[The Gödel Method Reapplied]]
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*[[Multifurcation]]
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*[[Essential Incompleteness]]
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*[[The Passion According to Lucas]]
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*[[Jumping Up a Dimension]]
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*[[The Limits of Intelligent Systems]]
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*[[There Is No Recursive Rule for Naming Ordinals]]
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*[[Other Refutations of Lucas]]
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*[[Self-Transcendence -- A Modern Myth]]
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*[[Advertisement and Framing Devices]]
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*[[Simplicio, Salviati, Sagredo: Why Three?]]
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*[[Zen and Stepping Out]]
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*[[Edifying Thoughts of a Tobacco Smoker]]
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==[[CHAPTER 16: SELF-REF AND SELF-REP]]==
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*[[Implicitly and Explicitly Self-Referential Sentences]]
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*[[A Self-Reproducing Program]]
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*[[What Is a Copy?]]
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*[[A Self-Reproducing Song]]
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*[[Epimenides Straddles the Channel]]
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*[[A Program That Prints Out Its Own Gödel Number]]
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*[[Gödelian Self-Reference]]
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*[[A Self-Rep by Augmentation]]
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*[[A Kimian Self-Rep]]
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*[[What Is the Original?]]
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*[[Typogenetics]]
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*[[Strands, Bases, Enzymes]]
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*[[Copy Mode and Double Strands]]
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*[[Amino Acids]]
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*[[Translation and the Typogenetic Code]]
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*[[Tertiary Structure of Enzymes]]
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*[[Punctuation, Genes, and Ribosomes]]
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*[[Puzzle: A Typogenetical Self-Rep]]
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*[[The Central Dogma of Typogenetics]]
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*[[Strange Loops, TNT, and Real Genetics]]
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*[[DNA and Nucleotides]]
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*[[Messenger RNA and Ribosomes]]
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*[[Amino Acids]]
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*[[Ribosomes and Tape Recorders]]
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*[[The Genetic Code]]
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*[[Tertiary Structure]]
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*[[Reductionistic Explanation of Protein Function]]
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*[[Transfer RNA and Ribosomes]]
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*[[Punctuation and the Reading Frame]]
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*[[Recap]]
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*[[Levels of Structure and Meaning in Proteins and Music]]
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*[[Polyribosomes and Two-Tiered Canons]]
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*[[Which Came First -- The Ribosome or the Protein?]]
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*[[Protein Function]]
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*[[Need for a Sufficiently Strong Support System]]
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*[[How DNA Self-Replicates]]
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*[[Comparison of DNA's Self-Rep Method with Quining]]
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*[[Levels of Meaning of DNA]]
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*[[The Central Dogmap]]
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*[[Strange Loops in the Central Dogmap]]
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*[[The Central Dogmap and the Contracrostipunctus]]
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*[[E. Coli vs. T4]]
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*[[A Molecular Trojan Horse]]
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*[[Recognition, Disguises, Labeling]]
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*[[Henkin Sentences and Viruses]]
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*[[Implicit vs. Explicit Henkin Sentences]]
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*[[Henkin Sentences and Self-Assembly]]
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*[[Two Outstanding Problems: Differentiation and Morphogenesis]]
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*[[Repressors and Inducers]]
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*[[Feedback and Strange Loops Compared]]
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*[[Two Simple Examples of Differentiation]]
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*[[The Origin of Life]]
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*[[The Magnificrab, Indeed]]
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==[[CHAPTER 17: CHURCH, TURING, TARSKI, AND OTHERS]]==
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*[[Formal and Informal Systems]]
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*[[Intuition and the Magnificent Crab]]
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*[[The Church-Turing Thesis]]
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*[[The Public-Processes Version]]
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*[[Srinivasa Ramanujan]]
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*[[Idiots Savants]]
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*[[The Isomorphism Version of the Church-Turing Thesis]]
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*[[Representation of Knowledge about the Real World]]
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*[[Processes That Are Not So Skimmable]]
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*[[Articles of Reductionistic Faith]]
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*[[Partial Progress in AI and Brain Simulation?]]
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*[[Beauty, the Crab, and the Soul]]
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*[[Irrational and Rational Can Coexist on Different Levels]]
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*[[More Against Lucas]]
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*[[An Underpinning of AI]]
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*[[Church's Theorem]]
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*[[Tarski's Theorem]]
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*[[The Impossibility of the Magnificrab]]
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*[[Two Types of Form]]
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*[[Meaning Derives from Connections to Cognitive Structures]]
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*[[Beauty, Truth, and Form]]
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*[[The Neural Substrate of the Epimenides Paradox]]
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*[[SHRDLU, Toy of Man's Designing]]
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==[[CHAPTER 18: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: RETROSPECTS]]==
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*[[Turing]]
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*[[The Turing Test]]
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*[[Turing Anticipates Objections]]
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*[[Parry Encounters the Doctor]]
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*[[A Brief History of AI]]
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*[[Mechanical Translation]]
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*[[Computer Chess]]
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*[[Samuel's Checker Program]]
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*[[When Is a Program Original?]]
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*[[Who Composes Computer Music?]]
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*[[Theorem Proving and Problem Reduction]]
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*[[Shandy and the Bone]]
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*[[Changing the Problem Space]]
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*[[The I-Mode and the M-Mode Again]]
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*[[Applying AI to Mathematics]]
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*[[The Crux of AI: Representation of Knowledge]]
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*[[DNA and Proteins Help Give Some Perspective]]
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*[[Modularity of Knowledge]]
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*[[Representing Knowledge in a Logical Formalism]]
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*[[Deductive vs. Analogical Awareness]]
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*[[From Computer Haiku to an RTN-Grammar]]
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*[[From RTN's to ATN's]]
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*[[A Little Turing Test]]
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*[[Images of What Thought Is]]
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*[[Higher-Level Grammars...]]
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*[[Grammars for Music?]]
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*[[Winograd's Program SHRDLU]]
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*[[The Structure of SHRDLU]]
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*[[PLANNER Facilitates Problem Reduction]]
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*[[Syntax and Semantics]]
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*[[Contrafactus]]
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==[[CHAPTER 19: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: PROSPECTS]]==
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*[[Almost" Situations and Subjunctives"]]
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*[[Layers of Stability]]
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*[[Frames and Nested Contexts]]
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*[[Bongard Problems]]
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*[[Preprocessing Selects a Mini-Vocabulary]]
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*[[High-Level Descriptions]]
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*[[Templates and Sameness-Detectors]]
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*[[A Heterarchical Program]]
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*[[The Concept Network]]
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*[[Slippage and Tentativity]]
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*[[Meta-Descriptions]]
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*[[Flexibility is Important]]
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*[[Focusing and Filtering]]
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*[[Science and the World of Bongard Problems]]
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*[[Connections to Other Types of Thought]]
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*[[Message-Passing Languages, Frames, and Symbols]]
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*[[Enzymes and AI]]
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*[[Fission and Fusion]]
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*[[Epigenesis of the Crab Canon]]
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*[[Conceptual Skeletons and Conceptual Mapping]]
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*[[Recombinant Ideas]]
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*[[Abstractions, Skeletons, Analogies]]
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*[[Multiple Representations]]
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*[[Ports of Access]]
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*[[Forced Matching]]
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*[[Recap]]
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*[[Creativity and Randomness]]
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*[[Picking up Patterns on All Levels]]
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*[[The Flexibility of Language]]
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*[[Intelligence and Emotions]]
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*[[AI Has Far to Go]]
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*[[Ten Questions and Speculations]]
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*[[Sloth Canon]]
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==[[CHAPTER 20: STRANGE LOOPS, OR TANGLED HIERARCHIES]]==
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*[[Can Machines Possess Originality?]]
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*[[Below Every Tangled Hierarchy Lies An Inviolate Level]]
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*[[A Self-Modifying Game]]
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*[[The Authorship Triangle Again]]
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*[[Escher's Drawing Hands]]
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*[[Brain and Mind: A Neural Tangle Supporting a Symbol Tangle]]
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*[[Strange Loops in Government]]
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*[[Tangles Involving Science and the Occult]]
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*[[The Nature of Evidence]]
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*[[Seeing Oneself]]
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*[[Gödel's Theorem and Other Disciplines]]
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*[[Introspection and Insanity: A Gödelian Problem]]
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*[[Can We Understand Our Own Minds or Brains?]]
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*[[Gödel's Theorem and Personal Nonexistence]]
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*[[Science and Dualism]]
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*[[Symbol vs. Object in Modern Music and Art]]
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*[[Magritte's Semantic Illusions]]
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*[[The Code" of Modern Art"]]
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*[[Ism Once Again]]
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*[[Understanding the Mind]]
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*[[Accidental Inexplicability of Intelligence?]]
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*[[Undecidability Is Inseparable from a High-Level Viewpoint]]
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*[[Consciousness as an Intrinsically High-Level Phenomenon]]
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*[[Strange Loops as the Crux of Consciousness]]
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*[[The Self-Symbol and Free Will]]
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*[[A Gödel Vortex Where All Levels Cross]]
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*[[An Escher Vortex Where All Levels Cross]]
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*[[A Bach Vortex Where All Levels Cross]]
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*[[Six-Part Ricercar]]
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