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15024838 |
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OSt |
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070927s2007 nyuaf b 001 0 eng c |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780465030798 (pbk.) |
| Terms of availability |
$18.99 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
Indian Institute for Human Settlements-Bangalore |
| 042 ## - AUTHENTICATION CODE |
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| Authentication code |
pcc |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Edition number |
23 |
| Classification number |
153 HOF |
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002363 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Hofstadter, Douglas R., |
| Dates associated with a name |
1945- |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
I am a strange loop / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Douglas Hofstadter. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Basic Books, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
c2007. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xix, 412 p., [4] p. of plates : |
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ill. (some col.) ; |
| Dimensions |
25 cm. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [377]-382) and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Preface: an author and his book -- An affable locking of horns -- On souls and their sizes -- This teetering bulb of dread and dream -- The causal potency of patterns -- Loops, goals, and loopholes -- On video feedback -- Of selves and symbols -- The epi phenomenon -- Embarking on a strange-loop safari -- Pattern and provability -- Gödel's quintessential strange loop -- How analogy makes meaning -- On downward causality -- The elusive apple of my "I" -- Strangeness in the "I" of the beholder -- Entwinement -- Grappling with the deepest mystery -- How we live in each other -- The blurry glow of human identity -- Consciousness = thinking -- A courteous crossing of words -- A brief brush with Cartesian egos -- A tango with zombies and dualism -- Killing a couple of sacred cows -- On magnanimity and friendship -- Epilogue: the quandary. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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Hofstadter's long-awaited return to the themes of Gödel, Escher, Bach--an original and controversial view of the nature of consciousness and identity. What do we mean when we say "I"? Can a self, a soul, a consciousness, an "I" arise out of mere matter? If it cannot, then how can you or I be here? This book argues that the key to understanding selves and consciousness is a special kind of abstract feedback loop inhabiting our brains. Deep down, a human brain is a chaotic 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 in your brain or mine is the one we both call "I." But how can such a mysterious abstraction be real--or is our "I" merely a convenient fiction?--From publisher description. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Self (Philosophy). |
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Consciousness. |
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Intellect. |
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Soul. |
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| Materials specified |
Table of contents |
| Uniform Resource Identifier |
<a href="http://openisbn.com/isbn/0465030785/">http://openisbn.com/isbn/0465030785/</a> |
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Dewey Decimal Classification |
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Book |
