Note Details
- Stage: seed 🌱
- Type: book
- Topics: consciousness, philosophy, mathematics
Douglas Hofstadter’s personal and philosophical exploration of self-reference and consciousness, arguing that the self is a strange loop — a self-perceiving, self-referential pattern.
Book Summary
Building on ideas from Godel, Escher, Bach, Hofstadter argues that consciousness and the sense of “I” arise from a strange loop — a feedback loop in which the system can represent and reason about itself. He explores how meaning and soul emerge from patterns in the brain.
Notes
- Companion to Godel, Escher, Bach - An Eternal Golden Braid
- The self as a self-referential pattern