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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Hofstadter, Douglas R., 1945-     Subjects     Consciousness.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Hofstadter, Douglas R., 1945-       by title:      I am a strange loop ...         MARC Display

I am a strange loop / Douglas Hofstadter. by Hofstadter, Douglas R., 1945- New York : BasicBooks, c2007. Subjects Consciousness. ISBN:  0465030785 (hbk.) 9780465030781 (hbk.) Description:  xix, 412 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. 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. Requests:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status Due Date   Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 153 Hofstadter Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Kihei Public Library Adult Nonfiction 153 Ho Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Koloa P/S Library Adult Nonfiction 153 Ho Lost 12/08/2008 Add Copy to MyList Mililani Public Library Adult Nonfiction 153 Ho Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Thelma Parker Memorial P/S Library Adult Nonfiction 153 Ho Checked In   Add Copy to MyList

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