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 responsibility to - we say "I", "I" did this because "I" wanted to, because "I" am a good person or because "I" am a bad person. The loop is the fact that we represent our selves, our desires, hopes, dreads and dreams: it is the way in which we conceive of ourselves, rather than the way we conceive of Mount Everest or of a tree. And I say it exists entirely in the loop: the self is an hallucination hallucinated by an hallucination.
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
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.
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…
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…
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…
. . . all meaning comes from analogies. - Douglas Hofstadter
. . . all meaning comes from analogies.
The following sentence is false. The preceding sentence is true. - Douglas Hofstadter
The following sentence is false. The preceding sentence is true.
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…
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