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I Am a Strange Loop
Author | : Douglas R. Hofstadter |
Publsiher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2007-08-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780465008377 |
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Can thought arise out of matter? Can self, soul, consciousness, “I” arise out of mere matter? If it cannot, then how can you or I be here? I Am a Strange Loop argues that the key to understanding selves and consciousness is the “strange loop”—a special kind of abstract feedback loop inhabiting our brains. The most central and complex symbol in your brain is the one called “I.” The “I” is the nexus in our brain, one of many symbols seeming to have free will and to have gained the paradoxical ability to push particles around, rather than the reverse. How can a mysterious abstraction be real—or is our “I” merely a convenient fiction? Does an “I” exert genuine power over the particles in our brain, or is it helplessly pushed around by the laws of physics? These are the mysteries tackled in I Am a Strange Loop, Douglas Hofstadter's first book-length journey into philosophy since Gödel, Escher, Bach. Compulsively readable and endlessly thought-provoking, this is a moving and profound inquiry into the nature of mind.
Book Review Index 2009 Cumulation
Author | : Dana Ferguson |
Publsiher | : Book Review Index Cumulation |
Total Pages | : 1304 |
Release | : 2009-08 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1414419120 |
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Book Review Index provides quick access to reviews of books, periodicals, books on tape and electronic media representing a wide range of popular, academic and professional interests. The up-to-date coverage, wide scope and inclusion of citations for both newly published and older materials make Book Review Index an exceptionally useful reference tool. More than 600 publications are indexed, including journals and national general interest publications and newspapers. Book Review Index is available in a three-issue subscription covering the current year or as an annual cumulation covering the past year.
The Mind s I
Author | : Douglas R. Hofstadter,Daniel Clement Dennett |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 501 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Consciousness |
ISBN | : 014006253X |
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The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Author | : Julian Jaynes |
Publsiher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 580 |
Release | : 2000-08-15 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9780547527543 |
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National Book Award Finalist: “This man’s ideas may be the most influential, not to say controversial, of the second half of the twentieth century.”—Columbus Dispatch At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion—and indeed our future. “Don’t be put off by the academic title of Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Its prose is always lucid and often lyrical…he unfolds his case with the utmost intellectual rigor.”—The New York Times “When Julian Jaynes . . . speculates that until late in the twentieth millennium BC men had no consciousness but were automatically obeying the voices of the gods, we are astounded but compelled to follow this remarkable thesis.”—John Updike, The New Yorker “He is as startling as Freud was in The Interpretation of Dreams, and Jaynes is equally as adept at forcing a new view of known human behavior.”—American Journal of Psychiatry
Godel s Proof
Author | : Ernest Nagel,James R. Newman |
Publsiher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2018-09-14 |
Genre | : Gödel's theorem |
ISBN | : 9780359079261 |
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In 1931 Kurt Gödel published his paper, "On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems." Gödel’s paper challenged certain basic assumptions underlying much research in mathematics and logic. However, few scholars were unable to understand Gödel’s ideas. Ernest Nagel and James Newman provide a readable and accessible explanation of the main ideas and broad implications of Gödel's discovery.
Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies
Author | : Douglas R. Hofstadter |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 518 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Analogy |
ISBN | : 0140258353 |
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Hosftadter and his colleagues at The Fluid Analogies Research Group have developed computer models that help describe and explain human discovery, creation and analogical thought. The key issue of perception is investigated through the exploration of playful anagrams, number puzzles, word play and fanciful alphabetical styles, and the result is a survey of cognitive processes. This text presents the results.
Metamagical Themas
Author | : Douglas R. Hofstadter |
Publsiher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 880 |
Release | : 2008-08-04 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9780786723867 |
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Hofstadter's collection of quirky essays is unified by its primary concern: to examine the way people perceive and think.
G del Escher Bach
Author | : Douglas R. Hofstadter |
Publsiher | : Penguin Group(CA) |
Total Pages | : 832 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Art and music |
ISBN | : 0140289208 |
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'What is a self and how can a self come out of inanimate matter?' This is the riddle that drove Douglas Hofstadter to write this extraordinary book. In order to impart his original and personal view on the core mystery of human existence - our intangible sensation of 'I'-ness - Hofstadter defines the playful yet seemingly paradoxical notion of 'strange loop', and explicates this idea using analogies from many disciplines.