| Publisher | Basic Books |
| Cover/Jacket Design by | Nicole Caputo |
| Cover photo | William Frucht |
| Format | Paperback |
| Language | English |
| Copyright | 2007 |
| This Edition Published | 2008 |
| Pages / Font | 412 pages |
| ISBN | 978-0-465-03079-8 |
| Barcode | 9 780465 030798 |
| EAN 5 | 51695 |
| Chapters | Words of Thans
Preface: An Author and His Book
Prologue: An Affable Locking of Horns
Chapter 1: On Souls and Their Sizes
Chapter 2: This Teetering Bulb of Dread and Dream
Chapter 3: The Causal Potency of Patterns
Chapter 4: Loops, Goals, and Loopholes
Chapter 5: on Video Feedback
Chapter 6: Of Selves and Symbols
Chapter 7: The Epi Phenomenon
Chapter 8: Embarking on a Strange-Loop Safari
Chapter 9: Pattern and Provability
Chapter 10: Gödel's Quintessential Strange Loop
Chapter 11: How Analogy Makes Meaning
Chapter 12: On Downward Causality
Chapter 13: The Elusive Apple of My "I"
Chapter 14: Strangeness in the "I" of the Beholder
Chapter 15: Entwinement
Chapter 16: Grappling with the Deepest Mystery
Chapter 17: How We Live in Each Other
Chapter 18: The Blurry Glow of Human Identity
Chapter 19: Consciousness = Thinking
Chapter 20: A Courteous Crossing of Words
Chapter 21: A Brief Brush with Cartesian Egos
Chapter 22: A Tango with Zombies and Dualism
Chapter 23: Killing a Couple of Sacred Cows
Chapter 24: On Magnanimity and Friendship
Epilogue: The Quandary
Notes
Bibliography
Permissions and Acknowledgements
Index Words of Thans
Preface: An Author and His Book
Prologue: An Affable Locking of Horns
Chapter 1: On Souls and Their Sizes
Chapter 2: This Teetering Bulb of Dread and Dream
Chapter 3: The Causal Potency of Patterns
Chapter 4: Loops, Goals, and Loopholes
Chapter 5: on Video Feedback
Chapter 6: Of Selves and Symbols
Chapter 7: The Epi Phenomenon
Chapter 8: Embarking on a Strange-Loop Safari
Chapter 9: Pattern and Provability
Chapter 10: Gödel's Quintessential Strange Loop
Chapter 11: How Analogy Makes Meaning
Chapter 12: On Downward Causality
Chapter 13: The Elusive Apple of My "I"
Chapter 14: Strangeness in the "I" of the Beholder
Chapter 15: Entwinement
Chapter 16: Grappling with the Deepest Mystery
Chapter 17: How We Live in Each Other
Chapter 18: The Blurry Glow of Human Identity
Chapter 19: Consciousness = Thinking
Chapter 20: A Courteous Crossing of Words
Chapter 21: A Brief Brush with Cartesian Egos
Chapter 22: A Tango with Zombies and Dualism
Chapter 23: Killing a Couple of Sacred Cows
Chapter 24: On Magnanimity and Friendship
Epilogue: The Quandary
Notes
Bibliography
Permissions and Acknowledgements
Index Show all ▾ |
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