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Synopsis
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 readable and endlessly thought-provoking, this is a moving and profound inquiry into the nature of mind.
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About the Author
Douglas R. Hofstadter nacio en Nueva York en 1945 y es hijo de Robert Hofstader, premio Nobel de Fisica en 1961. Estudio matematicas en Stanford y fisica en el Universidad de Oregon. Actualmente es profesor de ciencias cognitivas en la Universidad de Michigan. Su obra Gödel, Escher, Bach (1979) fue, para gran asombro de todos, inmediatamente un best-seller en los Estados Unidos antes incluso de recibir el prestigioso Premio Pulitzer en 1980 y el American Book Award del mismo año. Este libro ha sido editado, con el mismo exito de publico y critica, en Francia, Alemania, Italia y Holanda. Actualmente se esta traduciendo al chino y al portugues. En 1981, Hofstadter publico, en colaboracion con el filosofo Daniel C. Dennett, The Mind´s I, y en 1985 Metamagical Themas.
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- PublisherTusquets
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 607421431X
- ISBN 13 9786074214314
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageSpanish
- Number of pages510
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