I make with the Echoes... All time is Now! *Jigs off into the distance*

[wolven7]

StrixusOokami: so. . .how are you?
Damien667: i'm... really freaked out by what i hit in Hofstatder, today, considering some of the things i'm working on
StrixusOokami: ive Told you about doing things like that
Damien667: he Wrote the Book in the SEVENTIES! It's not my fault that i create Echoes Backward through TIME!
Damien667: Side-Effect! SIDE EFFECT!
StrixusOokami: ....
StrixusOokami: "I think we may need more instructors... and a couple of tanks"

These is in regards to These Quotes:

'The problem with the "Rule of All" was that it required knowing that all the lines of an infinite pyramidal family are theorems-- too much for a finite being. But suppose that each line of the pyramid can be derived from its predecessor in a *Patterned* way. Then there would be a *Finite Reason* accounting fo the fact taht all strings in the pyramid are theorems. The trick, then, is to find the *pattern* that causes the cascade, and show that that pattern is a theorem in itself.' - ( Hofstadter, 223).

And

'Now line 49 is a critically important tension-increaser, because of the "almost-there" feeling which it induces. It would be extremely unsatisfactory to leave off there! From there on, it is almost predictable how things must go. But you wouldn't want a piece of music to quit on you just when it had made the mode of resolution apparent.'

Important part:

'You don't want to Imagine the ending-- you want to hear the ending.' (Hofstadter, 227).

So... Yeah... Those who know... now you know, more.

Comments

and i quote...

[(Anonymous)]

The study of invisible writings was a new discipline made available by the discovery of the bi-directional nature of Library Space. The thaumic mathematics are complex, but boils down to the fact that all books, everywhere, affect all other books. This is obvious: books inspire other books written in the future, and cite books written in the past. But the General Theory of L-Space suggests that, in that case, the contents of boos as yet unwritten can be deduced from books now in existence...

- Pratchett, "Lords and Ladies" pg 49, footnote 1

And I aint going to touch that further without protective gloves and a bomb shield.

Re: and i quote...

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Like i said: Just tell me when i get my Tenure, and all will be well.