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    The document summarizes questions related to recursion, intelligence, and modularity from Chapter 13 of Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter. It includes old questions on whether recursion can explain creativity, why humans are bad at recursion compared to machines, and the nature of sameness and metaphysics. New questions explore additional contexts for recursion, views on representations of God, isomorphism in Escher's art, the connection between recursion and isomorphism, definitions of modularity and subroutines, applications of modularity, and the role of recursion in intelligence.

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    The document summarizes questions related to recursion, intelligence, and modularity from Chapter 13 of Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter. It includes old questions on whether recursion can explain creativity, why humans are bad at recursion compared to machines, and the nature of sameness and metaphysics. New questions explore additional contexts for recursion, views on representations of God, isomorphism in Escher's art, the connection between recursion and isomorphism, definitions of modularity and subroutines, applications of modularity, and the role of recursion in intelligence.

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    The document summarizes questions related to recursion, intelligence, and modularity from Chapter 13 of Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter. It includes old questions on whether recursion can explain creativity, why humans are bad at recursion compared to machines, and the nature of sameness and metaphysics. New questions explore additional contexts for recursion, views on representations of God, isomorphism in Escher's art, the connection between recursion and isomorphism, definitions of modularity and subroutines, applications of modularity, and the role of recursion in intelligence.

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    Chapter 13

    Chapter V: Recursive Structures and Processes


    Please! Call it GNU. Richard Stallman Please! Refer to Curran Kellehers handout on Recursive Structures and Processes. Justin Curry Below are questions which I concocted while taking Rob Speers G odel, Escher, Bach undergrad uate seminar (SP.258). Below those I have some new questions that I wrote forgetting that I had written the old questions years ago. Enjoy!

    13.1

    Old Questions

    Thoughts on Intelligence 1. Can recursion explain creativity? 2. If intelligence seems to depend on recursion, why are humans so bad at it? Ex. Kasparov vs. Machine Sameness-and-Dierentness 1. What is a better investigation of sameness? Is it probabilistic? To what degree can we abstract parts of something, and still have a meaningful equivalence relation? Metaphysics and Theology 1. Is Hofstadters analogy for God a serious one? Something which is unattainable, or stands outside the system? If God is the universe, and part of the universe prays to God, then is God recursive? 2. What would happen if I made the following prayer: I pray that this prayer is not answered.

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    13.2

    New Questions

    1. We have provide lots of examples of recursion, self-similar fractals, and so on. Come up with some other contexts in which recursion appears. 2. What do you think of DRHs agnostic friend on page 142, who calls Gplot a picture of God? 3. To what extent are Feynman diagrams a formal system? 4. What type of isomorphism links all the butteries in Eschers Butteries on page 148? 5. What is the connection between recursion and isomorphism? What does Hofstadter say the connection is? 6. Dene modularization. 7. Dene subroutine or procedure. 8. What is the essence of modularity in programming? 9. Discuss the following quote: Modularity exists, of course, in hi- systems, furniture, living cells, human society wherever there is a hierarchical organization. (GEB pp. 150) 10. What is Hofstadters Law? Was he right about a computer program being world champion? 11. What is the role of recursion in intelligence?

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