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Hofstadter, Dennett - The Mind's I

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Selfish Genes and Selfish Memes 146super-Lilliput! <strong>The</strong> selections by Stanislaw Lem in this book all share thisquality; see especially selection 18, "<strong>The</strong> Seventh Sally."We bring this weird idea up to remind the reader to keep an open mind aboutthe variability of media that can support complex lifelike or thoughtlikeactivity. This notion is explored slightly less wildly in the following dialogue,in which consciousness emerges from the interacting levels of an ant colony.D. R. H.

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