I Am a Strange Loop
Autor Douglas R. Hofstadteren Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 iun 2010
One
of
our
greatest
philosophers
and
scientists
of
the
mind
asks,
where
does
the
self
come
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
Loopargues
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
inI
Am
a
Strange
Loop,
Douglas
Hofstadter's
first
book-length
journey
into
philosophy
sinceGödel,
Escher,
Bach.
Compulsively
readable
and
endlessly
thought-provoking,
this
is
a
moving
and
profound
inquiry
into
the
nature
of
mind.
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Notă biografică
Douglas
Hofstadteris
College
of
Arts
and
Sciences
Professor
of
Cognitive
Science
and
Computer
Science
at
Indiana
University,
Bloomington.
His
other
books
include
the
Pulitzer
Prize-winningGödel,
Escher,
Bach:
an
Eternal
Golden
Braid;Metamagical
Themas;The
Mind's
I;Fluid
Concepts
and
Creative
Analogies;Le
Ton
beau
de
Marot;andSurfaces
and
Essences,
with
Emmanuel
Sander
.
He
lives
in
Bloomington,
Indiana.
Recenzii
"[F]ascinating...
original
and
thought-provoking....
[T]here
are
many
pleasures
inI
Am
a
Strange
Loop."--Wall
Street
Journal
"I Am a Strange Loopis thoughtful, amusing and infectiously enthusiastic."--Bloombergnews
"I Am a Strange Loopscales 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 Loopis a work of rigorous thinking, but it's also an extraordinary tribute to the memory of romantic love:The Year of Magical Thinkingfor mathematicians."--Time
"I Am a Strange Loopis 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, thenI 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 bookGödel, 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
"I Am a Strange Loopis thoughtful, amusing and infectiously enthusiastic."--Bloombergnews
"I Am a Strange Loopscales 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 Loopis a work of rigorous thinking, but it's also an extraordinary tribute to the memory of romantic love:The Year of Magical Thinkingfor mathematicians."--Time
"I Am a Strange Loopis 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, thenI 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 bookGödel, 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