Joseph Javier Perla

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From Hofstadter’s Godel, Escher, Bach:

That is, it seems to me, a general principle: you get bored with something not when you have exhausted its repertoire of behavior, but when you have mapped out the limits of the space that contains its behavior.

I’ll call it Hofstadter’s Law. I think that Hofstadter wanted to call something else his law, but it wasn’t as interesting as this.

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Written by Joseph Perla

November 24th, 2007 at 9:22 am

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