I Am a Strange Loop
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Narrateur(s):
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Greg Baglia
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Auteur(s):
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Douglas R. Hofstadter
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One of our greatest philosophers and scientists of the mind asks where the self comes from - and how our selves can exist in the minds of others.
Can thought arise out of matter? Can self, soul, consciousness, "I" arise out of mere matter? If it cannot, then how can you or I be here?
I Am a Strange Loop argues that the key to understanding selves and consciousness is the "strange loop" - a special kind of abstract feedback loop inhabiting our brains. The most central and complex symbol in your brain is the one called "I". The "I" is the nexus in our brain, one of many symbols seeming to have free will and to have gained the paradoxical ability to push particles around, rather than the reverse.
How can a mysterious abstraction be real - or is our "I" merely a convenient fiction? Does an "I" exert genuine power over the particles in our brain, or is it helplessly pushed around by the laws of physics?
These are the mysteries tackled in I Am a Strange Loop, Douglas Hofstadter's first book-length journey into philosophy since Gödel, Escher, Bach. Compulsively listenable and endlessly thought-provoking, this is a moving and profound inquiry into the nature of mind.
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Ce que les critiques en disent
"I Am a Strange Loop is vintage Hofstadter: earnest, deep, overflowing with ideas, building its argument into the experience of reading it - for if our souls can incorporate those of others, then I Am a Strange Loop can transmit Hofstadter's into ours. And indeed, it is impossible to come away from this book without having introduced elements of his point of view into our own. It may not make us kinder or more compassionate, but we will never look at the world, inside or out, in the same way again." (Los Angeles Times Book Review)
"Nearly thirty years after his best-selling book Gödel, Escher, Bach, cognitive scientist and polymath Douglas Hofstadter has returned to his extraordinary theory of self." (New Scientist)
"I Am a Strange Loop scales some lofty conceptual heights, but it remains very personal, and it's deeply colored by the facts of Hofstadter's later life. In 1993 Hofstadter's wife Carol died suddenly of a brain tumor at only 42, leaving him with two young children to care for.... I Am a Strange Loop is a work of rigorous thinking, but it's also an extraordinary tribute to the memory of romantic love: The Year of Magical Thinking for mathematicians." (Time)
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- Ynordu
- 2019-03-25
awesome
read this book at all costs. this is my favourite philosopher right now. crazy stuff.
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- Ruy
- 2019-11-01
Good theme, some chapters too dense
Other parts I can't find a good match with the rest of the main theme
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- tyler
- 2023-04-22
Okay
The author is fundamentally misunderstood in the fact that the moral delema of killing creatures comes down to the design of life and transferring energy.
A lion doesn't have a moral issue killing and consuming so a chapter dedicated to what is a soul by explaining his vegetarianism just wastes the readers time.
A lot of the book seems to be dedicated to the authors ego, it seems.
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- Arpad Benedek
- 2021-01-12
Interesting subject, but arguments long.
I think the book discusses an interesting subject but it is very slow in arriving to the conclusion. I red Gödel, Escher, Bach and I loved it therefore I chose this book. Probably it is just me but I felt bored often while listening to it. The conclusion is interesting though arguable, the arguments for it too long. The narrator was good, though there was a slight annoyance every time he mispronounced Gödel, I kept hearing girdle.
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- 2024-01-16
Interesting but flawed
The idea that you exist in others and others exist in you has some truth, but without communication or transfer of data from one self to another a dual soul doesn't exist.
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