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Comment author: Risto_Saarelma 01 March 2015 09:10:29AM 0 points [-]

(I think sphexish is Dawkins, not Hofstadter.)

Hofstadter uses it heavily in Gödel, Escher, Bach in 1979 as the metaphor for things that are unable to Jump Out Of The System. Dawkins only had The Selfish Gene out by then, and The Selfish Gene wasn't really about algorithmic rigidity.

Comment author: jmmcd 01 March 2015 10:36:51PM 0 points [-]

Oops, you're right