![]() Instead, instantly, the whole word is built ''I don't make any conscious decisions - I don't say, well let me try this, let me try that. A grin appears and disappears under a mass of unruly black hair. Then something else appears, or two or three things, over and over again, new possibilities and new combinations - and always English sounds or close to them.'' He looks at ''These words just appear in front of me. ''I have an unbelievably rapid way of exploring the space,'' he says, writing KNOODLER on his blackboard at Indiana University. ![]() Hofstadter, computer scientist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, does Jumbles. The regrouping is fast, subtle and fluid. It just happens, withĪ delicacy that belies the power of the decision making. No conscious logic decides how to tear the letters apart and put them back together. This isn't like doing arithmetic - there are no rules to tell you how to make these patterns. ![]() Implausible combinations like EOKDNLRO and Actually, in this case there isn't even a word there, but at least the patterns look like words. You have to turn a few scrambled letters into a word. OU'RE LOOKING AT A NEWSPAPER comic page and your eye falls on today's jumble. AugExploring the Labyrinth of the Mind By JAMES GLEICK From The New York Times Magazine ![]()
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