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I Am a Strange Loop
I Am a Strange Loop | Douglas R. Hofstadter
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 Loopargues 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 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 laws of physics? These are the mysteries tackled in I Am a Strange Loop, Douglas Hofstadter's first book-length journey into philosophy since Godel, Escher, Bach. Compulsively readable and endlessly thought-provoking, this is a moving and profound inquiry into the nature of mind.
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I Am a Strange Loop | Douglas R. Hofstadter
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Mim really likes the bookshelves!

Libby1 😻 7y
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We are all curious collages, weird little planetoids that grow by accreting other people‘s habits and ideas and styles and tics and jokes and phrases and tunes and hopes and fears as if they were meteorites that came soaring out of the blue, collided with us, and stuck. What at first is an artificial, alien mannerism slowly fuses into the stuff of our self, like wax melting in the sun, and gradually becomes as much a part of us as everyone else.

JoeStalksBeck This is what mine would say😀 what is yours? 8y
Seshat @Book_Addict Probably either the ending monologue of The Goldfinch or the ending monologue of Cloud Atlas. 8y
JoeStalksBeck @seshat awesome!📚❤️ 8y
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After I get these on the shelf only 8 more boxes 👍🏻❤️😁 I have a problem, I think

LauraLeah I love your problem! I have it too. 8y
JoeStalksBeck @LauraLeah lol I'm unpacking my last 8 boxes and I think I need more 8y
LauraLeah @Newtonslight Of course you do! We can never have enough books. 8y
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JoeStalksBeck @lauraleah I just moved all these to a new house. It's the only downside of having this many lol 8y
LauraLeah @Newtonslight When I moved in with my husband, he told me we couldn't move again due to so many books. 8y
JoeStalksBeck @lauraleah lol! I've heard the same!😂 8y
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