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  by katie & 2 users

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Type: documentary

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Status: I recommend

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Author: Douglas Hofstadter

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Tags: philosophy math metaphors cognitive_science brains

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Description: Some of it is beyond me, of course, but a great exercise in thinking about thinking -- especiallySome of it is beyond me, of course, but a great exercise in thinking about thinking -- especially about what makes an "I" to think. The idea of self and interiority developing over time via encounters that Hofstadter compares to "video loops" -- a camera trained on its own output, feeding back into itself endlessly and settling into a stable pattern eventually. His use of and belief in metaphor is central and effective....

2007-08-03

  by hubbird & 15 users

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Type: fiction

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Status: favorite

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Authors: Douglas Hofstadter Douglas R. Hofstadter

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Tags: programming ai math consciousness recursion reflexivity

2006-04-24

  by miraage & 15 users

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Type: technical

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Status: to read

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Authors: Douglas Hofstadter Douglas R. Hofstadter

2006-02-17

  by danila & 15 users

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Type: scientific

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Status: I recommend

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Authors: Douglas Hofstadter Douglas R. Hofstadter

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Tags: science art philosophy mind thinking music ai brain self recursion worldview

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Description: really changes the way one thinks about self

2005-09-17

  by mikesale & 15 users

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Type: technical

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Status: favorite

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Authors: Douglas Hofstadter Douglas R. Hofstadter

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Tags: science philosophy ai cognitive.science complex.systems complex_systems cognitive_science

2005-09-11

  by etherfish & 15 users

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Type: technical

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Status: now reading

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Authors: Douglas Hofstadter Douglas R. Hofstadter

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Tags: science philosophy ai complex_systems cognitive_science

2005-09-10

  by etherfish & 2 users

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Type: technical

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Status: to read

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Author: Douglas Hofstadter

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Tags: philosophy ai cognitive_science

2005-09-10

  by atma & 15 users

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Type: technical

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Status: I recommend

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Authors: Douglas Hofstadter Douglas R. Hofstadter

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Tags: science philosophy ai cognitive.science complex.systems

2005-09-09

  by johnchampagne & 1 users

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Type: educational

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Status: now reading

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Author: Douglas Hofstadter

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Tags: mind ai language translation

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Description: An occasionally akward and meandering, but provacativeAn occasionally akward and meandering, but provacative look at translation, language and meaning...

2005-09-03