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From Gödel Escher Bach:

Figure 40. (a collage of scripts, demonstrating how meaning can be carried in strings of [many different choices of sets of] symbols: compare Turing or Shannon)

Figures 135 & 136. (Escher's Drawing Hands, followed by a structural sketch showing how the paradox of mutual recursion can be solved by something implicit and prior to both: compare McCarthy or Curry's Y combinator)



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