I am a strange loop /
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Basic Books,
c2007.
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Table of 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
- Gèodel'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.