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I found it interesting to read about how Hofstadter can take the letters of a word jumbled up and quickly produce the correctly-spelled word. I have always had a great deal of trouble trying to solve these problems, and it takes me a very long time to do so. It seems elegant in the way he describes solving these problems by, "toss(ing) the letters back up in the air and see how they come down the next time" (Hofstadter, 88). I struggle trying to solve it this way and end up trying to "brute-force" it by slowly starting at each letter and trying to add the remaining letters to try and make sense of a word. It makes me wonder why some people are good at solving these types of problems and why some people aren't.