11 Sep
2012
11 Sep
'12
3:45 a.m.
>> This sounds familiar, and the name that comes
to mind is Parry (I
>> think Parry was paranoid as well as, or perhaps instead of,
>> schizophrenic). Check Douglas Hofstadter's writings - _Metamagical
>> Themas_ strikes me as the most likely. Might be in _G?del, Escher,
>> Bach_, or maybe even _The Mind's I_, but I think not.
> I seem to remember seeing something about Parry talking to Eliza in
> a late-1970s or early--1980s Creative Computing, but I _was_ reading
> CC at the same time as I first read _G?del, Escher, Bach_, so if
> it's in there, I could easily be confused.
I just dug out my copy.
It's in GEB (possibly among other places). Once in _Chapter X: Levels
of Description, and Computer Systems_; once in _Chapter XVIII:
Artificial Intelligence: Retrospects_; and once, briefly, in _Chapter
XIX: Artificial Intelligence: Prospects_. Look up "PARRY" in the
index. The Parry-meets-Doctor (it was described as being Doctor, a
descendent of Eliza, not Eliza itself) meeting is described, to the
extent that it is, in the second of those three.
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