Hofstadter, Dennett - The Mind's I

Prelude . . . Ant Fugue 159TORTOISE: Oh, my, look at this! I just turned the page while following the music, and cameacross this magnificent illustration facing the first page of the fugue.CRAB: I have never seen that illustration before. Why don't you pass it 'round?(The Tortoise passes the book around. Each of the foursome looks at it in a characteristicway-this one from afar, that one from close up, everyone tipping his head this way and that inpuzzlement. Finally it has made the rounds and returns to the Tortoise, who peers at it ratherintently. )ACHILLES: Well, I guess the prelude is just about over. I wonder if, as I listen to this fugue,I will gain any more insight into the question "What is the right way to listen to a fugue: as awhole, or as the sum of its parts?"TTORTOISE: Listen carefully, and you will!(The prelude ends. There is a moment of silence; and ...[ATTACCA ]... Ant Fugue.. then, one by one, the four voices of the fugue chime in.)ACHILLES: I know the rest of you won't believe this, but the answer to the question isstaring us all in the face, hidden in the picture. It is simply one word-but what an importantone: "MU"!C(CRAB: I know the rest of you won't believe this, but the answer to the question is staringus all in the face, hidden in the picture. It is simply one word-but what an important one:"HOLISM"!ACHILLES: Now hold on a minute. You must be seeing things. It's plainas day that the message of this picture is "MU," not "HOLISM"!CRAB: I beg your pardon, but my eyesight is extremely good. Please look again, and thentell me if the picture doesn't say what I said it says!ANTEATER: h know the rest of you won't believe this, but the answer to the question isstaring us all in the face, hidden in the picture. It is simply one word-but what an importantone: "REDUCTIONISM"!