Re: FW: 3-Brain - 1-Mind?

2010-08-11 Thread Russell Standish
Hi Stephen, A very interesting post, one that I haven't fully grokked yet. I think the question you're tackling is another facet of the problem of the Anthropic Principle that I outlined in my book, so I wish you well in your endeavours. One tip is that I think Hofstädter's Gödel loops are

RE: FW: 3-Brain - 1-Mind?

2010-08-11 Thread Stephen P. King
Dear Russell, Yes, and it was Hofstädter's Gödel loops that gave me the idea of how one might model self-referential systems. I found Jon Barwise's work on non-well founded set theory to be the best treatment of this so far, but there still is not a general enough logical and algebraic