[S]uitably complicated recursive systems might be strong enough to break out of any predetermined patterns. And isn't this one of the defining proper… - Douglas Hofstadter

(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.

If categorization is central to thinking, then what mechanism carries it out? Analogy is the answer.

"We believe in marbles that disintegrate when we search for them but that are as real as any genuine marble when we're not looking for them. Our very nature is such as to prevent us from fully understanding its very nature. Poised midway between the unvisualizable cosmic vastness of curved spacetime and the dubious, shadowy flickerings of charged quanta, we human beings, more like rainbows and mirages than like raindrops or boulders, are unpredictable self-writing poems — vague, metaphorical, ambiguous, and sometimes exceedingly beautiful. [...] What one gives up on is a childlike sense that things are exactly as they appear, and that our solid-seeming, marble-like "I" is the realest thing in the world; what one acquires is an appreciation of how tenuous we are at our cores, and how wildly different we are from what we seem to be."