I Am a Strange Loop: By Douglas R. Hofstadter - Softcover

Hofstadter, Douglas

 
9780465030798: I Am a Strange Loop: By Douglas R. Hofstadter

Synopsis

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

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About the Author

Douglas Hofstadter is College of Arts and Sciences Professor of Cognitive Science and Computer Science at Indiana University, Bloomington. His other books include the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid; Metamagical Themas; The Mind's I; Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies; Le Ton beau de Marot; and Surfaces and Essences, with Emmanuel Sander. He lives in Bloomington, Indiana.

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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 thought arise out of matter? Can self, soul, consciousness, "I" arise out of mere matter? If it cannot, then how can you or I be here? 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. The most central and complex symbol in your brain

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ISBN 10:  0465030785 ISBN 13:  9780465030781
Publisher: Basic Books, 2007
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