I am a Strange Loop Hofstadter Douglas R.
I am a Strange Loop Hofstadter Douglas R. One of our greatest philosophers and scientists of the mind asks, where does the self come from -- and how our selves can exist in the minds of others. Can…
Specifikacia I am a Strange Loop Hofstadter Douglas R.
I am a Strange Loop Hofstadter Douglas R.
One of our greatest philosophers and scientists of the mind asks, where does the self come from -- and how our selves can exist in the minds of others. Can self, soul, consciousness, I arise out of mere matter? Can thought arise out of matter?
I Am a Strange Loop argues that the key to understanding selves and consciousness is the strange loop-a special kind of abstract feedback loop inhabiting our brains. If it cannot, then how can you or I be here? The most central and complex symbol in your brain is the one called I.
The I is the nexus in our brain, one of many symbols seeming to have free will and to have gained the paradoxical ability to push particles around, rather than the reverse. How can a mysterious abstraction be real-or is our I merely a convenient fiction? Does an I exert genuine power over the particles in our brain, or is it helplessly pushed around by the