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Re: To see me always changes
Posted:
Feb 10, 2013 3:27 PM
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On Sat, 9 Feb 2013 21:28:50, Mahipal <mahipal7638@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 9, 2:48?pm, Frederick Williams <freddywilli...@btinternet.com>
> wrote:
> > Mahipal wrote:
> >
> > > [...]
> >
> > > As an experiment, of the observational scientific kind, take a close
> > > and deep look at the palms of both your hands. Draw what you see, or
> > > take a photograph with your very own smartestphone. Take an image of
> > > you making an image of you making your own image... recursively on and
> > > on...
> >
> > Or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drawing_Hands.
>
> You Fred are both kind and brave just to interact on this silly
> thread. Watch your back...
>
> I love M.C. Escher! Studied closely the Douglas Hofstadter GEB book
> over the years as well. Still, my aim is targeted at you -- any you --
> focusing on the inside of your hands. Your palms.
>
> The recursion TV theme I have had in mind is of Comedian Philosopher
> Steve Martin on Saturday Night Live pointing at himself and exclaiming
> "There's me watching me watching me watching me..."
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Spheres_II
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> In http://mahipal7638.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/tauntedpoet.pdf I
> capture my animated respect of Escher.
>
> > --
> > When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by
> > this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
> > Jonathan Swift: Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting
>
> Nice quote that.
>
Recursion, or its "pal" Re-entrant has not been much studied,
Why? Very powerfull stuff there. Perhaps earthlings are as
stupid as they appear!
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