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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (400)	7/31/1996 4:20:00 PM
From: JF Quinnelly	of 3539

Goedel-Escher-Bach was a book that dealt with "self-referential" systems, or rather the impossibility of them. You are probably familiar with Escher's ink drawings in which a drawing of a hand is drawing itself, a flock of geese transforms itself into a school of fish, a tower has staircases that, through tricks of perspective, go in impossible directions. Kurt Goedel was a mathmetician: "Goedel's Theorem" argues that there can be no complex math systems that contain their own definitions within the system; all draw upon outside assumptions. Bach was, well, Bach. Hofstader included him in his book because Bach's very last composition contained the musical phrase B-A-C-H; this is possible because "H" is the designation for one of the flat notes in the German musical notation which Bach used. Hofstader seemed to be implying that Bach's self-reference did him in. More likely his age did him in, but that wouldn't be fun to speculate about. That GeneChip does look like fun, doesn't it? As for Cree, it looks like a better way to play the blue-laser SiC field may be ATMI, a specialty materials supllier. They are actually making money. It looks like ATMI may prosper no matter who ends up developing the blue laser.

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