It is an inherent property of intelligence that it can jump out of a task which it is performing and survey what it has done.
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.
Many people believe that our lives end not when we die but when the very last person who knew us dies. Memory is part of it, yes, but I think it's mu… - Douglas Hofstadter
Many people believe that our lives end not when we die but when the very last person who knew us dies. Memory is part of it, yes, but I think it's mu…
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…
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…
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…
You make decisions, take actions, affect the world, receive feedback from the world, incorporate it into yourself, then the updated 'you' makes more … - Douglas Hofstadter
You make decisions, take actions, affect the world, receive feedback from the world, incorporate it into yourself, then the updated 'you' makes more …
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