I am not really convinced that the comas were induced because people fell into
a neverending loop that led information or processing overload.
If the cause of the coma was too much information, then this would imply that
the brain has a limited capacity. Therefore, anyone who reads or studies too
much would fall into comas.
If the coma were caused by a Godelian-type statement that caused the person to
enter a loop, then why could the person not decide to leave the loop? In
Hofstadter's reading, he says that when we find ourselves contemplating
sentences like "Thiss sentence contains threee errors" we eventually tire of
the confusion and jump out of the loop. What about the Riddle would make one
stay in the loop forever?
=Katherine Loo=
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