Page de couverture de I Am a Strange Loop

I Am a Strange Loop

 Aperçu

1 mois d'essai gratuit à Audible Standard

8,99 $/mois à la fin de l’essai. Annulation à tout moment.
Essayer pour 0,00 $
Autres options d’achat

I Am a Strange Loop

Auteur(s): Douglas R Hofstadter
Narrateur(s): Greg Baglia
Essayer pour 0,00 $

8,99 $/mois après 30 jours. Annulable en tout temps

Acheter pour 48,72 $

Acheter pour 48,72 $

One of our greatest philosophers and scientists of the mind examines where the self comes from – and how our selves can exist in the minds of others.

“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

Deep down, your brain is a chaotic seething soup of particles. On a higher level it is a jungle of neurons, and on a yet higher level it is a network of abstractions that we call “symbols.” The most central and complex symbol is the one you call “I.” An “I” is a strange loop where the brain’s symbolic and physical levels feed back into each other and flip causality upside down so that symbols seem to have gained the paradoxical ability to push particles around, rather than the reverse.

To each human being, this “I” is the realest thing in the world. But how can such a mysterious abstraction be real? Is our “I” merely a convenient fiction? Does “I” exert genuine power over the particles in our brain, or is it helplessly pushed around by the all-powerful laws of physics?

These are among the mysteries tackled in I Am a Strange Loop, Douglas Hofstadter’s first book-length journey into philosophy since his Pulitzer Prize-winning Gödel, Escher, Bach. It is a tale crisply told, rife with anecdotes, analogies, and metaphors – cutting-edge philosophy that any strange loop can understand. Philosophie Science Mathématiques Conscience Cerveau humain Fiction Informatique
adbl_web_anon_alc_button_suppression_t1

Ce que les critiques en disent

"[F]ascinating... original and thought-provoking.... [T]here are many pleasures in I Am a Strange Loop."—Wall Street Journal
"I Am a Strange Loop is thoughtful, amusing and infectiously enthusiastic."—Bloomberg news
"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
"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 Loopcan 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 AngelesTimes 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
"His new book, as brilliant and provocative as earlier ones, is a colorful mix of speculations with passages of autobiography."—Martin Gardiner
Tout
Les plus pertinents
read this book at all costs. this is my favourite philosopher right now. crazy stuff.

awesome

Un problème est survenu. Veuillez réessayer dans quelques minutes.
Other parts I can't find a good match with the rest of the main theme

Good theme, some chapters too dense

Un problème est survenu. Veuillez réessayer dans quelques minutes.
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.

Okay

Un problème est survenu. Veuillez réessayer dans quelques minutes.
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.

Interesting subject, but arguments long.

Un problème est survenu. Veuillez réessayer dans quelques minutes.
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.

Interesting but flawed

Un problème est survenu. Veuillez réessayer dans quelques minutes.