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July 23, 2013Douglas Hofstadter

Surfaces and Essences

Hofstadter’s (and Sander’s) latest. analogyCognitionCognitive scienceDouglas HofstadterGödel Escher BachHofstadterPhilosophy of mindSurfaces and Essences

April 29, 2013A Confederacy of Dunces

I Am a Strange Loop: The Life and Times of John Kennedy Toole

Here is the intro to a review essay: Butterfly in the Typewriter: The Tragic Life of John Kennedy Toole and the Remarkable Story of A Confederacy of Dunces. Cory MacLauchlin. Boston and New York: Da Capo Press, 2012, 319 pages, $26.00 hardcover. The book is not autobiography; neither is it altogether invention. While the…

April 29, 2008Bounds 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

I am a strange loop

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. Douglas Hofstadter