I am a strange loop / Douglas Hofstadter.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Basic Books, 2008Description: xix, 412 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cmISBN: 9780465030798 (pbk)Subject(s): ConsciousnessDDC classification: 153Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Books | Namal Library Philosophy and Psychology(hall 2) | 153 HOF-S 2008 10652 (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | Available | 0010652 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 -- Gödel'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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