--- 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.

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