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geb chapter 5 (recursive structures) [7a9cc2ee]

Tags: Hofstadter - Godel, Escher, Bach

  • Treats music as a shallow stack with two keys
  • Talks about recursion in a langauge, verb-at-the-end requires a stack (german)
  • arabic verb at the start, is this a queue?
  • return address -> where the recursion in loops swing back to
  • retrival - stored procedures
  • epimenides paradox

  • recursion as a form of information compress, you can store the recursive function and generate the data with it later

  • renormalization - reconstruction of particle state with its peers
  • grammars in recursion, human langauges, physics
  • when are two things the same? when are they not the same?