This property’s total opposite is an unattainable ability called “Breaking Out Of Loops Everywhere,” or BOOLE. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this property of mechanized creativity that “self-watchers” cannot avoid without an infinite regress. An article in the column “Metamagical Themas” coined this term in reference to a genus of insects that engage in pointlessly repetitive behavior.
ANSWER: sphexishness
[10e] The Scientific American column “Metamagical Themas” was by this cognitive scientist, who wrote Gödel, Escher, Bach.
ANSWER: Douglas Hofstadter
[10m] This 1984 book argues that resolving people’s fear that determinism means they are sphexish is enough to resolve the free will debate. The term “intuition pump” was coined in this book subtitled “Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting.”
ANSWER: Elbow Room: Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting (by Daniel Dennett)
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