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Douglas Hofstadter wrote an essay about this essay in the book “The Mind’s I” which I thoroughly enjoyed reading even if a lot of it is beyond me. There’s a som
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Douglas Hofstadter wrote an essay about this essay in the book “The Mind’s I” which I thoroughly enjoyed reading even if a lot of it is beyond me. There’s a somewhat janky OCR version here http://themindi.blogspot.com/2007/02/chapter-24-what-is-it-like-to-be-bat.html?m=1 http://themindi.blogspot.com/2007/02/chapter-24-what-is-it-l...
Classic Hofstadter, he introduces a concept called a “Be-Able Thing” (BAT for short)