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082			_a153.35 _bHOF
100			_aHofstadter,Douglas R.
245			_aI am a strange loop
260			_aNew York _bBasic Books _c2007
300			_axix, 412 p
440			_aLos Angeles Times Book Prize Winners
505			_aPreface: 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 Gd̲el'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
520			_aHofstadter'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			_aPSYCHOLOGY Cognitive Psychology
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