--- In [email protected], "sinhlnx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (in a metaphorical analogue to Godel's Theorem), Hofstadter states, > > The other metaphorical analogue to Gödel's Theorem which I find > provocative suggests that ultimately, we cannot understand our own > mind/brains ... Just as we cannot see our faces with our own eyes, is > it not inconceivable to expect that we cannot mirror our complete > mental structures in the symbols which carry them out? All the > limitative theorems of mathematics and the theory of computation > suggest that once the ability to represent your own structure has > reached a certain critical point, that is the kiss of death: it > guarantees that you can never represent yourself totally. >
Not deliberately. There's plenty of discussion of accidentally awakened AIs though.
