RE: I compute, therefore I am

Subject: RE: I compute, therefore I am
From: "Smith, Martin" <martin -dot- smith -at- encorp -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 09:50:44 -0600


Cindy Knight wrote:
Caught a cute typo today: "Click on OK to exist."

This reminds me of a favorite book: Metamagical Themas by Douglas R.
Hofstadter. A former columnist for Scientific American, Hofstadter explores
the oddities of natural and artificial languages.

Sentences such as Cindy's are self-referential. Other favorites of mine
include "If you meet this sentence on the board, erase it",
"You only exist while reading me", and "This is a sentence with 'onions',
'lettuce', 'tomato', and 'a side of fries to go'".

Other interesting classes of sentences include self-replicating sentences,
and self-documenting sentences.

His book is lots of fun for anyone who likes to play with language,

Martin R. Smith
Encorp Inc.

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