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From: petry@blake.u.washington.edu (David Petry)
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Subject: Self-reference (was Re: musings on Godel's theorem)
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Date: 26 Nov 90 19:52:46 GMT
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In article <1990Nov25.204513.24169@nntp-server.caltech.edu> morphy@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Jones Maxime Murphy) writes:

> A great deal of human intelligence derives from self-reference, ...

Is this true?

Perhaps somebody who believes that the above statement is true could give us
a careful definition of "self-reference", especially one that clearly 
distinguishes self-reference from recursion, and then show how the above
statement can be supported.

David Petry
petry@math.washington.edu