I Am a Strange Loop (Paperback)

from liberality

I am currently reading this book and I like his explanation on how he became a vegetarian. I must say here that I too am a vegetarian and for many of the same reasons. The book looks to be a fascinating read and I look forward to it.

from liberality

I am currently reading this book and I like his explanation on how he became a vegetarian. I must say here that I too am a vegetarian and for many of the same reasons. The book looks to be a fascinating read and I look forward to it.

from bobbieharv

I met Doug when I was 19 - our parents were friends and we visited them in Palo Alto. He introduced me to stereo headphones, listening to Bach. It was a transporting experience. I made it through about half of Godel Escher Bach before giving up at the formulas; the reviews of Strange Loop made it...

from TeaTimeCoder

I liked the idea of distributed consciousness. It reminds me of the idea of electron's position being a probability cloud where even though there's a small area where it's likely to be technically the probability is stretched out thinly to everywhere. Even though we are mostly in our brain there ...

from nbmars

Douglas Hofstadter's "I am a Strange Loop" tackles THE Hard Problem of the Philosophy of Mind, namely, how can consciousness arise from inanimate substances like atoms, or as he would rephrase the question, "What could ever make a mere physical pattern be Me." The book also tackles Hofstadter's f...