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I am a strange loop / Douglas R. Hofstadter.
| Author/creator | Hofstadter, Douglas R., 1945- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : BasicBooks ; London : Perseus Running [distributor], 2007. |
| Description | xix, 412 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN | 0465030785 (hbk.) |
| ISBN | 9780465030781 (hbk.) |