Pynchon / Nabokov / Borges / Mathematics

[Hartwin Alfred Gebhardt]

Jim writes:
 
> Finally, anybody got any opinions on Kurt Godel, formal logic, artificial 
> intelligence and/or 'The Crying of Lot 49'? 

Gödel - see Lyotard's "The Postmodern Condition" - it makes the 
connection between postmodernity and 'postmodern science' (quite 
well, up to his conclusion)
AI - try J David Bolter's "Turing's Man" published (I think) in 1984, 
it reads as if could have come straight out of GR

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