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I Am A Strange Loop

Douglas R. Hofstadter

511 pages

About this book

Argues that the key to understanding ourselves and consciousness is the "strange loop," a special kind of abstract feedback loop that inhabits the brain.

Themes
Eye-OpeningDeeply ResearchedParadigm-ShiftingConsciousness as recursive feedbackThe illusion of a unified selfMind emerging from matterIdentity as a persistent pattern
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