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I am a strange loop
- Title
- I am a strange loop / Douglas R. Hofstadter.
- Author
- Hofstadter, Douglas R., 1945-
- Publication
- New York : Basic Books, 2007.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 07-3340 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xix, 412 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. (some col.); 24 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 07-3340
- ISBN
- 0465030785 (hbk.)
- 9780465030781 (hbk.)
- OCLC
- 64554976
- Author
- Hofstadter, Douglas R., 1945-
- Title
- I am a strange loop / Douglas R. Hofstadter.
- Imprint
- New York : Basic Books, 2007.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 07-3340