You should read Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter.
This is an excellent examination of the way we think, and the relationship between axiomic systems and reality. The purpose of the book is to discuss AI possibilities, but to do such Hofstadter discusses the concept of thought really well. I was lucky to read this book quite young and early into my life as a programmer. As much as I think you can draw reflections of reality in programmming you have to realise that programming, mathematics, physics, all axiomic systems are approximations of reality and these approximations can fall over and often do when the system you are in stacks up its axioms.
"No matter where you go, there you are." BB
-
Are you posting in the right place? Check out Where do I post X? to know for sure.
-
Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags. Currently these include the following:
<code> <a> <b> <big>
<blockquote> <br /> <dd>
<dl> <dt> <em> <font>
<h1> <h2> <h3> <h4>
<h5> <h6> <hr /> <i>
<li> <nbsp> <ol> <p>
<small> <strike> <strong>
<sub> <sup> <table>
<td> <th> <tr> <tt>
<u> <ul>
-
Snippets of code should be wrapped in
<code> tags not
<pre> tags. In fact, <pre>
tags should generally be avoided. If they must
be used, extreme care should be
taken to ensure that their contents do not
have long lines (<70 chars), in order to prevent
horizontal scrolling (and possible janitor
intervention).
-
Want more info? How to link
or How to display code and escape characters
are good places to start.
|
