For 13 to be unlucky would require there to be some kind of cosmic intelligence that counts things that humans count and that also makes certain things happen on certain dates or in certain places according to whether the number 13 'is involved' or not (whatever 'is involved' might mean).

The Strange Loop phenomenon occurs whenever, by moving upwards (or downwards) through levels of some hierarchial system, we unexpectedly find ourselves right back where we started.

It is an inherent property of intelligence that it can jump out of a task which it is performing and survey what it has done.

The strange flavour of AI work is that people try to put together long sets of rules in strict formalisms which tell inflexible machines how to be flexible.

In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self-reference.

I don't feel I have the right to snuff the lives of chicken and fish.

Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law