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By Douglas R. Hofstadter
"I Am a Strange Loop" was published by Basic Books in 2007 - New York, it has 412 pages and the language of the book is English.
“I Am a Strange Loop” Metadata:
- Title: I Am a Strange Loop
- Author: Douglas R. Hofstadter
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 412
- Publisher: Basic Books
- Publish Date: 2007
- Publish Location: New York
“I Am a Strange Loop” Subjects and Themes:
- Subjects: ➤ Self (Philosophy) - Intellect - Consciousness - Soul - Kognitiver Prozess - Metamathematik - Symbolen - Bewustzijn - Selbsterkenntnis - Künstliche Intelligenz - Selbstbezüglichkeit - Patronen (modellen) - Identity (psychology) - Medvetandet - Kèunstliche Intelligenz - Selbstbezèuglichkeit
Edition Specifications:
- Pagination: ➤ xix, 412 p., [4] p. of plates :
Edition Identifiers:
- The Open Library ID: OL24948194M - OL8067922W
- Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) ID: 64554976
- Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN): 2007310563
- ISBN-13: 9780465030781
- ISBN-10: 0465030785
- All ISBNs: 0465030785 - 9780465030781
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"I Am a Strange Loop" Table Of Contents:
- 1- Preface: an author and his book
- 2- An affable locking of horns
- 3- On souls and their sizes
- 4- This teetering bulb of dread and dream
- 5- The causal potency of patterns
- 6- Loops, goals, and loopholes
- 7- On video feedback
- 8- Of selves and symbols
- 9- The epi phenomenon
- 10- Embarking on a strange-loop safari
- 11- Pattern and provability
- 12- Gödel's quintessential strange loop
- 13- How analogy makes meaning
- 14- On downward causality
- 15- The elusive apple of my "I"
- 16- Strangeness in the "I" of the beholder
- 17- Entwinement
- 18- Grappling with the deepest mystery
- 19- How we live in each other
- 20- The blurry glow of human identity
- 21- Consciousness = thinking
- 22- A courteous crossing of words
- 23- A brief brush with Cartesian egos
- 24- A tango with zombies and dualism
- 25- Killing a couple of sacred cows
- 26- On magnanimity and friendship
- 27- Epilogue: the quandary.
"I Am a Strange Loop" Description:
The Open Library:
Hofstadter's long-awaited return to the themes of Gödel, Escher, Bach--an original and controversial view of the nature of consciousness and identity. What do we mean when we say "I"? Can a self, a soul, a consciousness, an "I" arise out of mere matter? If it cannot, then how can you or I be here? This book argues that the key to understanding selves and consciousness is a special kind of abstract feedback loop inhabiting our brains. Deep down, a human brain is a chaotic soup of particles, on a higher level it is a jungle of neurons, and on a yet higher level it is a network of abstractions that we call "symbols." The most central and complex symbol in your brain or mine is the one we both call "I." But how can such a mysterious abstraction be real--or is our "I" merely a convenient fiction?--From publisher description.
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