Very true; and I like Hofstadter. I'm too lazy to read books -
   not for a long time - but I peruse the Internet like crazy and
   learn that way.

   I looked at his list of major students:

   Don Byrd*Music Notation by Computer
   David Chalmers*Toward a Theory of Consciousness
   Gray A. Clossman*A Model of Categorization and Learning in a
   Connectionist Broadcast System
   Hamid Ekbia*AI Dreams and Discourse: Science and Engineering in
   Tension
   Harry Foundalis*Phaeaco: A Cognitive Architecture Inspired by
   Bongard's Problems
   Bob French*Tabletop: An Emergent, Stochastic Model of
   Analogy-Making
   Francisco Lara-Dammer*Modeling Human Discoverativity in Geometry
   Abhijit Mahabal*SeqSee: A Concept-centered Architecture for
   Sequence Perception
   Jim Marshall*Metacat: A Self-Watching Cognitive Architecture for
   Analogy-making and High level Perception
   Gary McGraw*Letter Spirit (Part One): Emergent High-level
   Perception of Letters Using Fluid Concepts
   Marsha Meredith*Seek-Whence: A Model of Pattern Perception
   Eric Nichols*Musicat: A Computer Model of Musical Listening and
   Analogy-Making
   Melanie Mitchell*Copycat: A Computer Model of High-Level
   Perception and Conceptual Slippage in Analogy-making
   John Rehling*Letter Spirit (Part Two): Modeling Creativity in a
   Visual Domain
   Wang Pei (Pei Wang) -- Non-Axiomatic Reasoning System: Exploring
   the Essence of Intelligence

   and there's David Chalmers, who while I disagree with him on
   _some_ nit-picky points, overall I find it difficult to argue
   with. [my misgivings were minimal enough that I don't have to
   think of them unless probed; much like my misgivings about
   Sagan; they're "close enough" for now].

   Unfortunately, I don't recognize the other names, but I love the
   topics they're working on. It's definitely within my family of
   cognitive beliefs, and I now have a direction of further
   research to explore and decide what I accept, what I reject, and
   ultimately making finer and finer cuts in the distinctiveness of
   "what I believe to be True", which is one of my missions. I'm
   particularly interested in "Jim Marshall*Metacat: A
   Self-Watching Cognitive Architecture for Analogy-making and High
   level Perception" - as that's what I've been working on for some
   time now and I will compare his beliefs with my own. Thank you
   [1]Don Parker - I look for inspiration everywhere I go because I
   never no from whence it will come.

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