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I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas R. Hofstadter - ISBN 9780465030781 - Basic Books 2007

note that this was finished much earlier but without recall, recall starts a month before the current date to already start with very spaced recalls

Motivation

Rewrite of the classic GEB (Godel, Escher, Bach) by the author years after.

Pre-reading model

Draw a schema (using PmGraphViz or another solution) of the situation of the area in the studied domain before having read the book.

Reading

  • 1 Introduction to Template by Author
    • "interesting quote." (p1)
    • note
  • Chapter 3 The Causal Potency Of Patterns

Related experiences (first person)

  • Paola's making me fly with her webcam accross her flat
  • Lea putting her new webcam in front of a mirror to make me "see myself" since I didn't have a camera
    • a weird philosophical experience
    • Chapter 18th about "telepresence" (p.262), "the sensation of feeling that you are somewhere far from both your body and your brain, thanks to the ultra rapid transmission of data" (Gunkel and then Minsky around 1980)
    • see ch.18th, "Ollie's doggy-cam" imaginary tied up along with a microphone on it's head and giving, after some hours of watching, the sensation of being the dog itself (p.261)

See also

Overall remarks and questions

  • offered to Paola

Synthesis

So in the end, it was about X and was based on Y.

Critics

Point A, B and C are debatable because of e, f and j.

Vocabulary

(:new_vocabulary_start:) new_word (:new_vocabulary_end:)

Post-reading model

Draw a schema (using PmGraphViz or another solution) of the situation of the area in the studied domain after having read the book. Link it to the pre-reading model and align the two to help easy comparison.

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Categories

Other read books linking to the I am a Strange Loop page :

LeCodeDeLaConscience
CreativityAndArtificialIntelligence

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