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Concepts in the brains of humans acquired the property that they could get rolled together with other concepts into larger packets, and any such larger packet could then become a new concept in its own right. The strange loops explain much of what i experienced and when i combine the information from this video with your what is god parts 1 and 2, im able to recontextualize thanks for that video too the whole experience into a much richer revelation. The interview below was conducted in september 2007 and was originally published, in hebrew, in the online culture magazine haayal hakore. Scott oreilly loops the loop with douglas hofstadter. If you need epub and mobi version, please send me a message click message us icon at the right corner.
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This seems to me to be a satisfying, although not necessarily complete, analysis of the strage of human consciousness in a material universe. I am a strange loop is overlywordy and jammed with a few too many analogies and painful puns, but i enjoyed the intellectual challenge. Godel, escher, bach an eternal golden braid internet archive. I am a strange loop by douglas hofstadter scott oreilly loops the loop with douglas hofstadter. Douglas hofstadter in his book i am a strange loop coined this idea. In 1993 hofstadters wife carol died suddenly of a brain tumor at only 42, leaving him with two young children to care for. Movies torrent and tv series torrent download without any ads.
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I am a strange loop attempts to correct this problem by better illustrating how inanimate matter can lead to animate beings with awareness and consciousness. 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. Strange times ebook by mike manolakes rakuten kobo. One of our greatest philosophers and scientists of the mind. The concept of a strange loop was originally developed in his 1979 book godel, escher, bach. Paul dempsey strange loop lyrics and tracklist genius. Douglas hofstadter said something that meant, i do not like doing things with computers. The i in the title refers to the concept of the i in all of us.
One of our greatest philosophers and scientists of the mind asks, where does the self come fromand how our selves can. All preconf events on oct 1st are optional and are not included in the strange loop conference rate. Hofstadter always has an intriguing and playful way to present his thinking. And indeed, it is impossible to come away from this book without having introduced elements of his point of view into our own.
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Hofstadter douglas richard hofstadter born february 15, 1945 is an american professor of cognitive science whose research focuses on the sense of i, consciousness, analogymaking, artistic creation, literary translation, and discovery in mathematics and physics. These are the mysteries tackled in i am a strange loop, douglas hofstadters first booklength journey into philosophy since goedel, escher. It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account hofstadter s law, and meaning lies as much in the mind of the reader as in the haiku. Hofstadter is college of arts and sciences professor of cognitive science and computer science at indiana university, bloomington. I am a strange loop is a 2007 book by douglas hofstadter, examining in depth the concept of a strange loop to explain the sense of i. These are the mysteries tackled in i am a strange loop, douglas hofstadter s first booklength journey into philosophy since godel, escher, bach. Hofstadter felt a need to write a new book because so many people misperceived geb as a hodgepodge of neat things with no central theme. Read online now i am a strange loop douglas r hofstadter ebook pdf at our library. Latest sermon from the church of fundamentalist naturalism by pastor hofstadter. Review of hofstadter, douglas r i am a strange loop. Escher, and composer johann sebastian bach, the book expounds concepts fundamental to mathematics, symmetry, and intelligence. If you want to read a far more disciplined analysis of consciousness, i can strongly recommend the works of hofstadter s friends, david chalmers and especially daniel dennett. No one knew what it was, but molly wasnt able to understand language or to speak nor is she to this day, and we never did find.
Twentyeight years ago, douglas hofstadter published a book titled goedel, escher, bach that earned him instant academic renown and a cultlike following. The concept of a strange loop was proposed and extensively discussed by douglas hofstadter in godel, escher, bach, and is further elaborated in hofstadters book i am a strange loop, published in 2007. Douglas hofstadter project gutenberg selfpublishing. So a strange loop is not a necessary condition for consciousness. By exploring common themes in the lives and works of logician kurt godel, artist m. In order to impart his original and personal view on the core mystery of human existence our intangible sensation of iness hofstadter defines the playful yet seemingly paradoxical notion of strange loop, and explicates this idea using analogies from many.
I am a strange loop is thoughtful, amusing and infectiously enthusiastic. I read hofstadter s metamagical themas many years ago and was fascinated by the authors vast area of expertise. The science ebook collection epubmobi download torrent. Goedel escher bach download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl, mobi. Bloomberg news i am a strange loop is vintage hofstadter. These are the mysteries tackled in i am a strange loop, douglas hofstadter s first booklength journey into philosophy since goedel, escher, bach. The strange loop 2020 conference takes place oct 2nd3rd with a party on oct 1st. New york, ny, 2007 isbn 0465030785 pb order this book. Review i am a strange loop is thoughtful, amusing and infectiously enthusiastic. He has won a pulitzer prize sourced quotes which statement seems more true. Review of i am a strange loop by douglas hofstadter 2007. Author of antiintellectualism in american life, the american political tradition and the men who made it, the age of reform, great issues in american history, social darwinism in american thought, united states. While strange loop studios has been in business for 1. Strange times is the sequel to variation seven, the book that began the traveler series.
Pulitzerprize winner douglas hofstadter takes on some weighty and wonderful questions in i am a strange loop among them, the size of a soul and the vagaries of thoughtand proposes persuasive answers that surprised me both with their simplicity and their sense of optimism. These are the mysteries tackled in i am a strange loop, douglas hofstadters first booklength journey into philosophy since godel, escher, bach. Hofstadter said something that meant, i did not fix it become someone will fix it back the next day they will put the errors back in. Doug hofstadter s latest book, i am a strange loop, is partly a reworking of and partly a sequel to his celebrated godel, escher and bach published back in 1979. For all my articles on wittgenstein and searle see my ebook the logical. In his latest book, i am a strange loop, he visits once again many of the themes originally presented in that book. Where he describes this selfreferential mechanism as what describes the unique property of minds. Douglas richard hofstadter is an american scholar of cognitive science, physics, and comparative literature whose research focuses on consciousness, thinking and creativity.
He truly provides no concrete reasons to believe only assertions, which are worth pondering if not agreeing with. Escher and composer johann sebastian bach, geb expounds concepts fundamental to mathematics, symmetry. Douglas r hofstadter argues that the key to understanding ourselves and consciousness is the strange loop, a special kind of abstract feedback loop. Carl sagan brocas brain haruki murakami norwegian wood. A soul that can transcend space and time, survive death, and even possess others, is considered intellectually passe. It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order. The i is the nexus in our brain, one of many symbols seeming to have free will and to have gained the. You would not find the boundaries of the soul no matter how many paths you traveled, so deep is its measure. A monumental, genredefying novel that david mitchell calls michel fabers second masterpiece, the book of strange new things is a masterwork from a writer in full command of his many talents.
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