It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order - and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order.
In fact, a sense of essence is, in essence, the essence of sense, in effect. - Douglas Hofstadter
In fact, a sense of essence is, in essence, the essence of sense, in effect.
- Douglas Hofstadter
If a mosquito has a soul, it is mostly evil. So I don't have too many qualms about putting a mosquito out of its misery. I'm a little more respectful… - Douglas Hofstadter
If a mosquito has a soul, it is mostly evil. So I don't have too many qualms about putting a mosquito out of its misery. I'm a little more respectful…
We create an image of who we are inside our self. The image then becomes very deeply entrenched, and it becomes the thing that we attribute responsib… - Douglas Hofstadter
We create an image of who we are inside our self. The image then becomes very deeply entrenched, and it becomes the thing that we attribute responsib…
I am the thought you are now thinking. - Douglas Hofstadter
I am the thought you are now thinking.
The key question is, no matter how much you absorb of another person, can you have absorbed so much of them that when that primary brain perishes, yo… - Douglas Hofstadter
The key question is, no matter how much you absorb of another person, can you have absorbed so much of them that when that primary brain perishes, yo…
The Strange Loop phenomenon occurs whenever, by moving upwards (or downwards) through levels of some hierarchial system, we unexpectedly find ourselv… - Douglas Hofstadter
The Strange Loop phenomenon occurs whenever, by moving upwards (or downwards) through levels of some hierarchial system, we unexpectedly find ourselv…
You can never represent yourself totally .... to seek self -knowledge is to embark on a journey which ... will always be incomplete, cannot be charte… - Douglas Hofstadter
You can never represent yourself totally .... to seek self -knowledge is to embark on a journey which ... will always be incomplete, cannot be charte…
The following sentence is false. The preceding sentence is true. - Douglas Hofstadter
The following sentence is false. The preceding sentence is true.
. . . all meaning comes from analogies. - Douglas Hofstadter
. . . all meaning comes from analogies.
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