Yes, that’s the point.
(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.
Oops, you’re right
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Yes, that’s the point.
(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.
Oops, you’re right