Ebook: I Am a Strange Loop
Author: Hofstadter Douglas R
- Tags: Bewusstsein, Kognitiver Prozess, PSYCHOLOGY--Cognitive Psychology, SCIENCE--Cognitive Science, Seele, Selbstbezüglichkeit, Self (Philosophy), Soul, Consciousness, Identity (Psychology), Intellect, Electronic books, Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winners, PSYCHOLOGY -- Cognitive Psychology, SCIENCE -- Cognitive Science, Selbstbezüglichkeit
- Year: 2007
- Publisher: Basic Books
- City: New York
- Language: English
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Argues that the key to understanding ourselves and consciousness is the "strange loop," a special kind of abstract feedback loop that inhabits the brain.;Preface: an author and his book -- An affable locking of horns -- On souls and their sizes -- This teetering bulb of dread and dream -- The causal potency of patterns -- Loops, goals, and loopholes -- On video feedback -- Of selves and symbols -- The epi phenomenon -- Embarking on a strange-loop safari -- Pattern and provability -- Gd̲el's quintessential strange loop -- How analogy makes meaning -- On downward causality -- The elusive apple of my "I" -- Strangeness in the "I" of the beholder -- Entwinement -- Grappling with the deepest mystery -- How we live in each other -- The blurry glow of human identity -- Consciousness = thinking -- A courteous crossing of words -- A brief brush with Cartesian egos -- A tango with zombies and dualism -- Killing a couple of sacred cows -- On magnanimity and friendship -- Epilogue: the quandary.
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