I am a strange loop is a 2007 book by douglas hofstadter examining in depth the concept of a strange loop to explain the sense of i.

Douglas r hofstadter pics. Hofstadter was born on february 15 1945 in new york city new york usa as douglas richard hofstadter. Douglas hofstadter s book is concerned directly with the nature of maps or links between formal systems. Eds perspectives on adaptation in natural and artificial systems. Douglas richard hofstadter born february 15 1945 is an american scholar of cognitive science physics and comparative literature whose research includes concepts such as the sense of self in relation to the external world consciousness analogy making artistic creation literary translation and discovery in mathematics and physics.

Download books for free. His 1979 book gödel escher bach. An eternal golden. Oxford university press 2003.

By douglas r hofstadter 31 cdn 19 99 cdn 29 99 readers of earlier works by douglas hofstadter will find this book a natural extension of his style and his ideas about creativity and analogy. The concept of a strange loop was originally developed in his 1979 book gödel escher bach. As in the preceding. Victim of the brain.

However according to hofstadter the formal system that underlies all mental activity transcends the system that supports it. Moore s law artificial evolution and the fate of humanity in l. Hofstadter enormous numbers of people are taken in or at least beguiled and fascinated by what seems to me to be unbelievable hocum and relatively few are concerned with or thrilled by the astounding yet true facts of science as put forth in the pages of say scientific american douglas r. An impassioned response to the latest wave of futuristic predictions of spiritual machines and the end of humanity as we know it.

Winds the floor of the machine room doesn t get flooded with rainwater and so on. He is a writer known for victim of the brain 1988 achieving the unachievable 2007 and through the wormhole 2010. In the end we are self perceiving self inventing locked in mirages that are little miracles of self reference. It s merely a simulation of certain aspects of a hurricane.

Oh come on that s not a fair argument. In the first place the programmers don t claim the simulation really. If life can grow out of the formal chemical substrate of the cell if consciousness can emerge out of a formal system of firing neurons.

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