I am a Strange Loop

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Where does personality originate? And how can our personalities exist in someone else's consciousness? Is thought material? Are personality, soul, consciousness, and self material? If not, how can we be here? Douglas Hofstadter argues that the key to understanding personality... is a strange loop, an abstract closed entity of a special kind, contained within the brain. The main and most complex symbol is the self. This link is one of many symbols that seem to be endowed with free will and have acquired the paradoxical ability to direct particles in the brain. How can such a mysterious abstraction be real? Or is the self a convenient fiction? Does the self have power over other particles, or does it obediently adhere to the laws of physics? The author grapples with these mysteries, undertaking for the first time since his magnum opus an original philosophical investigation into the nature of the human mind.

Author: Дуглас Хофштадтер

Printhouse: AST

Series: Masterpieces of World Science

Age restrictions: 12+

Year of publication: 2022

ISBN: 9785171207656

Number of pages: 512

Size: 220x149x29 mm

Cover type: hard

Weight: 560 g

ID: 928630

Where does personality originate? And how can our personalities exist in someone else's consciousness? Is thought material? Are personality, soul, consciousness, and self material? If not, how can we be here? Douglas Hofstadter argues that the key to understanding personality is a strange loop, an abstract closed entity of a special kind, contained within the brain. The main and most complex symbol is the self. This link is one of many symbols that seem to be endowed with free will and have acquired the paradoxical ability to direct particles in the brain. How can such a mysterious abstraction be real? Or is the self a convenient fiction? Does the self have power over other particles, or does it obediently adhere to the laws of physics? The author grapples with these mysteries, undertaking for the first time since his magnum opus an original philosophical investigation into the nature of the human mind.

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