Gunnar_Zarncke comments on Building Phenomenological Bridges - Less Wrong

56 Post author: RobbBB 23 December 2013 07:57PM

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Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 23 December 2013 08:12:46PM 3 points [-]

'Simple quining' will not do as that only copies representation verbatim. But I guess you mean some comparable more elaborate form of quining which allows reference to itself and deals with them with fix-point theorems (which must also be included in the representation). Reminds me of some Y combinator expressions I once saw. I'd bet that there are Lisp programs which do something like that.