Benjamin Bradley on 8 Dec 2000 03:47:26 -0000


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Re: spoon-discuss: nomic/drh


what does pbem stand for?
I've seen it several times but still don't know what it means.

On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Dan Waldron wrote:

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> 
> On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Benjamin Bradley wrote:
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> > 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
> 
> 

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