PARADOXO!
Desde o ano passado eu não coloquei nada novo aqui. Aqui vai
um texto publicado na seção "Metamagical Themas" do
Scientific American de Novembro de 1982 por Douglas Hofstadter. O texto
faz parte do artigo intitulado: "Changes in Default words and images,
Engendered by Rising Consciousness".
"A father and his son were driving to a ball game when their car stalled
on the railroad tracks. In the distance a train whistle blew a warning.
Frantically, the father tried to start the engine, but in his panic, he
couldn't turn the key, and the car was hit by the onrushing train. An
ambulance sped to the scene and picked them up. On the way to the
hospital, the father died. The son was still alive but his condition was
very serious, and he needed immediate surgery. The moment they arrived at
the hospital, he was wheeled into an emergency operating room, and the
surgeon came in, expecting a routine case. However, on seeing the boy, the
surgeon blanched and muttered, "I can't operate on this boy - he's my
son."
What do you make of this grim riddle? How could it be? Was the
surgeon lying or mistaken? No. Did the dead father's soul somehow get
reincarnated in the surgeon's body? No. Was the surgeon the boy's true
father and the dead man the boy's adopted father? No. What then, is the
explanation? Think it through until you have figured it out on your own -
I insist! You'll know when you've got it, don't worry.
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