I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas R. Hofstadter - ISBN 9780465030781 - Basic Books 2007
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
Related experiences (first person)
- Paola's making my 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
- Wikipedia page
- An Interview with Douglas R. Hofstadter, following I am a Strange Loop by by Tal Cohen and Yarden Nir-Buchbinder, Tal Cohen's Bookshelf 2008
- my watching notes on Godel, Escher, Bach: A Mental Space Odyssey
- I Am a Strange Loop: Consciousness Continuum, The New Skeptic 2007
- Consciousness Redux: When Does Consciousness Arise? by Christof Koch, Scientific American Mind September / October 2009
- Horizon, 2009-2010, The Secret You with Marcus du Sautoy, BBC October 2009
- neuroscience and brain imaging to study consciousness
- critics of Descartes misleading dualism and the link with religion
- discussion about conscisouness as an epiphenomum
- experiment using head-mounted camera and touch to fool the percetion-action loop
- at Karolinska Institutet in the Ehrsson's lab, Brain, Body & Self Laboratory
- see enaction in Cognition.Cognition
- Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience (BCCN) Berlin
- John-Dylan Haynes's page
- see also Cookbook.Cognition#WikiBrainMapping
- xkcd Two Mirrors by Randall Munroe
- "If you actually do this, what really happens is Douglas Hofstadter appears and talks to you for eight hours about strange loops."
- Healing Ecology: A 'New' Spiritual Perspective by David Loy, Vanderbilt University 2008
- Buddhism sense of self
- The Crucible of Consciousness : An Integrated Theory of Mind and Brain by Zoltan Torey, The MIT Press 2009
- http://www.wikisummaries.org/I_Am_a_Strange_Loop
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
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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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