I Am a Strange Loop Audiobook (Free)

One of our greatest philosophers and scientists of the mind asks, where will the self come from–and how our selves may exist in the thoughts of others. Can thought arise out of matter? Can self, soul, consciousness, ‘I’ arise out of mere matter? If it cannot, then how can you or I become right here? I Am a Unusual Loop argues that the key to understanding selves and awareness is the ‘unusual loop’-a special kind of abstract reviews loop inhabiting our brains. Probably the most central and complicated mark in about I Am a Unusual Loop your brain may be the one known as ‘I.’ The ‘I’ may be the nexus in our brain, among the many symbols seeming to have free will and to have obtained the paradoxical capability to force particles around, as opposed to the reverse. How can a mystical abstraction end up being real-or is our ‘I’ only a convenient fiction? Will an ‘I’ exert genuine power within the particles in our mind, or could it be helplessly pushed around with the laws of physics? These are the mysteries tackled in I Am a Unusual Loop, Douglas Hofstadter’s 1st book-length trip into school of thought since Gödel, Escher, Bach. Compulsively readable and endlessly thought-provoking, that is a moving and serious inquiry into the nature of mind.