in order to see that what they did was “exactly the same thing”, one has to ignore almost all the details of the two situations in order to extract f… - Douglas Hofstadter

We human beings are macroscopic structures in a universe whose laws reside at a microscopic level. As survival-seeking beings, we are driven to seek efficient explanations that make reference only to entities at our own level. We therefore draw conceptual boundaries around entities that we easily perceive, and in so doing we carve out what seems to us to be reality.

(1) Blurting may be considered as the reciprocal substitution of semiotic material (dubbing) for a semiotic dialogical product in a dynamic reflexion.

The human-written sentences are numbers (1) to 3; they were drawn from the contemporary journal Art-Language and are — as far as I can tell — completely serious efforts among literate and sane people to communicate something to each other.

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