Hettinger (hettingr@iglou.com)
Wed, 26 Nov 1997 18:51:40 +0100
Martin Striz wrote:
<snip R. Andrew Bailey's letter >
> Is anyone familiar with Douglas Hofstader? I can't determine from the
> wording whether the author invented these levels himself or got them from
> Hofstader, in either case, it just struck me that someone else divided
> reality into these subsets.
>
>
Hofstader's book doesn't have anything about the four levels. It is very much
about "shifting" perspectives.
I just checked out Mr.R. Andrew Bailey's web page. at
http://webpages.marshall.edu/~bailey9/
The first two books on his reading list are ZMM and Lila. He says:
(I am quoting snippets)
----------quote --------------------------------
Two books by Robert Pirsig:
These books are a masterpiece of reasoning. Anyone who's ever sat through
an introductory Philsophy course, feeling
strongly that the professor was only slightly less confused than yourself,
ought to read these two texts. Mr. Pirsig
wields his intellectual knife upon years of cruft philosophy, neatly
producing an elegant model of reason that makes a
lot of things make sense. Consider these two texts as one book.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
Lila
Two books by Daniel Quinn:
Ishmael
The Story of B
Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand
The Selfish Gene, by Richard Dawkins
Godel, Escher, Bach: The Eternal Golden Braid. Douglas Hofstader
This book deals ultimately with the ideas of artificial intelligence,
although it covers a great deal more than your
standard computer science textbook. I won't say much more.
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Julian
Jaynes
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I am writing Mr. Bailey an invitation to visit LS.
Maggie
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