I Am a Strange Loop

摘要: What do we mean when say "I"? Can thought arise out of matter? a self, soul, consciousness, an "I" mere If it cannot, then how can you or I be here? Am Strange Loop argues that the key to understanding selves and consciousness is "strange loop"--a special kind abstract feedback loop inhabiting our brains. Deep down, human brain chaotic seething soup particles, on higher level jungle neurons, yet network abstractions call "symbols. " The most central complex symbol in your mine one both "I. nexus where levels feed back into each other flip causality upside with symbols seeming have free will gained paradoxical ability push particles around, rather than reverse. For being, this seems realest thing world. But such mysterious abstraction real--or merely convenient fiction? Does exert genuine power over brain, helplessly pushed around by all-powerful laws physics? These are mysteries tackled Loop, Douglas R. Hofstadter's first book-length journey philosophy since Godel, Escher, Bach. Compulsively readable endlessly thought-provoking, book many readers long been waiting for.