Quote of the Day: Douglas Hofstadter

March 16th, 2007 by lowfat

Today’s quote comes from an old (1995) interview in Wired with AI researcher Douglas Hofstadter where he talks about the complexity of the human spirit:

“If such minds of infinite subtlety and complexity and emotional depth [like Bach] could be trivialized by a small chip, it would destroy my sense of what humanity is about – what humans are about, what love is about, what caring about people is about, and what humor is.”

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