Wonderful to see Douglas Hofstadter’s book I Am a Strange Loop win an LA Times Book Award. What passess as the literati these days needs to be exposed to a mind that is highly cultured, literary and that has unforced conceptual depth. See the Scientific American and the JASSS reviews from last year.
I am a strange loop
Bounds of Cognition, brain damage, cognitive science, connectionism, consciousness, distributed knowledge, embodiment, extended mind, neurobiology, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, personal identity, philosophy of mind, psychology, scientific american, social cognition, sociocognition, the "hard" problem
