I am a strange loop (Record no. 2553)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780465030798 |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of accompanying material other than librettos | eng |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 153.35 |
| Item number | HOF |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Hofstadter,Douglas R. |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | I am a strange loop |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | New York |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Basic Books |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2007 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Page number | xix, 412 p |
| 440 ## - SERIES STATEMENT/ADDED ENTRY--TITLE | |
| Title | Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winners |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Preface: an author and his book<br/>An affable locking of horns<br/>On souls and their sizes<br/>This teetering bulb of dread and dream<br/>The causal potency of patterns<br/>Loops, goals, and loopholes<br/>On video feedback<br/>Of selves and symbols<br/>The epi phenomenon<br/>Embarking on a strange-loop safari<br/>Pattern and provability<br/>Gd̲el's quintessential strange loop<br/>How analogy makes meaning<br/>On downward causality<br/>The elusive apple of my "I"<br/>Strangeness in the "I" of the beholder<br/>Entwinement<br/>Grappling with the deepest mystery<br/>How we live in each other<br/>The blurry glow of human identity<br/>Consciousness = thinking<br/>A courteous crossing of words<br/>A brief brush with Cartesian egos<br/>A tango with zombies and dualism<br/>Killing a couple of sacred cows<br/>On magnanimity and friendship<br/>Epilogue: the quandary |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Hofstadter's long-awaited return to the themes of Gödel, Escher, Bach--an original and controversial view of the nature of consciousness and identity. What do we mean when we say "I"? Can a self, a soul, a consciousness, an "I" arise out of mere matter? If it cannot, then how can you or I be here? This book argues that the key to understanding selves and consciousness is a special kind of abstract feedback loop inhabiting our brains. Deep down, a human brain is a chaotic soup of particles, on a higher level it is a jungle of neurons, and on a yet higher level it is a network of abstractions that we call "symbols." The most central and complex symbol in your brain or mine is the one we both call "I." But how can such a mysterious abstraction be real--or is our "I" merely a convenient fiction?--From publisher description |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | PSYCHOLOGY Cognitive Psychology |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | IIITDM Kurnool | IIITDM Kurnool | General Stacks | 03.06.2025 | New India Book Agency | 1236.00 | IN 6183 DATED 22.05.2025 | 153.35 HOF | 0007424 | 03.06.2025 | 1 | 03.06.2025 | Books | ||||||||
| Dewey Decimal Classification | IIITDM Kurnool | IIITDM Kurnool | General Stacks | 03.06.2025 | New India Book Agency | 1236.00 | IN 6183 DATED 22.05.2025 | 153.35 HOF | 0007425 | 03.06.2025 | 2 | 03.06.2025 | Books | ||||||||
| Dewey Decimal Classification | IIITDM Kurnool | IIITDM Kurnool | General Stacks | 03.06.2025 | New India Book Agency | 1236.00 | IN 6183 DATED 22.05.2025 | 153.35 HOF | 0007426 | 03.06.2025 | 3 | 03.06.2025 | Books | Non-fiction | 2472.00 | INR |