Ahhh, I see where you’re going now.

Yeah, that’s absolutely right.

No, I’ve never heard of this fellow Hofstadter. He wrote something worthwhile, I take it?

I’m a mathematical programmer by trade, that’s where this is all coming from ;p

The question this all sprang from was the legitimacy of thought: If thought is not necessarily legitimate, then we are not a necessary condition for thought.

But nevertheless, if thought exists, thought exists.

There also exists the possibility that thought also does not exist, but that is entirely outside, and a few provinces away from, the modality of this argument.