Dan Waldron on 8 Dec 2000 03:00:45 -0000


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Re: spoon-discuss: nomic/drh



On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Benjamin Bradley wrote:

> I picked up my copy of metamagical themas again and was wondering how many
> of us were turned on to Nomic by Hofstadter? If there are a sufficient
> number of interested people, maybe we could incorporate some of his other
> ideas - like analogy-making,etc. ?

We could have an analogy-making subgame.  I first encountered nomic
through Metamagical Themas.  It was several years after I first read the
book version that I discovered internet pbem nomic.  Now I'm hooked.

Poulenc