The key question is, no matter how much you absorb of another person, can you have absorbed so much of them that when that primary brain perishes, you can feel that that person did not totally perish from the earth... because they live on in a 'second neural home'?... In the wake of a human being's death, what survives is a set of afterglows, some brighter and some dimmer, in the collective brains of those who were dearest to them... Though the primary brain has been eclipsed, there is, in those who remain... a collective corona that still glows.
Douglas HofstadterThe paraphrase of Gรถdel's Theorem says that for any record player, there are records which it cannot play because they will cause its indirect self-destruction.
Douglas HofstadterI would like to understand things better, but I donโt want to understand them perfectly.
Douglas Hofstadter