Learned English Dog

[Erik Pohl]

At 12:09 PM 12/14/98 +1100, you wrote:
>On Sat, 12 Dec 1998, Beefy P wrote:

>don't have anything even slightly constructive to say here. i would like
>to ask if anyone can suggest a Deeper Meaning for "The L.E.D. blinks"
>(22.4). is it just a pun for the sake of it? (an LED is a light-emitting
>diode, and last i knew LEDs were used for almost all applications
>requiring little things to light up - modem displays, digital clocks - so 
>they do a lot of blinking)

Here is an off-the-wall response:

Douglas Hofstadter wrote _Godel, Escher, Bach_ about a lot of things,
including whether machines can have "souls" or not.  One of the major
interesting threads in the novel is Hofstadter's Western examination of the
koan described by the LED (I think it's the same one) and the concept of
mu.  Mu, based on that description, reminds me of an exluded middle, if ya
get my drift.


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