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The "strange loop” is likely to be a reference to a concept explored in Hofstadter's book "I am a strange loop": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_a_Strange
by sorokod 4y ago
The "strange loop” is likely to be a reference to a concept explored in Hofstadter's book "I am a strange loop":
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_a_Strange_Loop https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_a_Strange_Loop
- nescioquid 4y agoI read I am a Strange Loop before I started reading GEB because (as noted in the wiki page) he felt he did a better job of explaining the ideas here than in GEB. Sadly, all I can recall from this book are long passages about his dead wife and an AV art installation using feedback (which I think was also about his dead wife) rather than any insights into emergent phenomena. To be fair, I am not his ideal reader because the moment I feel the author becoming self-indulgent, I start skimming.