I Am a Strange Loop

I Am a Strange Loop

PublisherBasic Books
Cover/Jacket Design byNicole Caputo
Cover photoWilliam Frucht
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
Copyright2007
This Edition Published2008
Pages / Font412 pages
ISBN978-0-465-03079-8
Barcode9 780465 030798
EAN 551695
ChaptersWords 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
NotesCopyright © by Douglas R. Hofstadter Hardcover first published in 2007 by Basic Books A Member of the Perseus Book Group Paperback first published in 2008 by Basic Book
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