I-Making Self Referential Loops
Posted by: Robert Sandberg in Notes to Self, The Self, philosophy, tags: consciousness, Douglas HofstadterWho am We?
This . . . This is . . . This is not . . . This is this this is not . . . this is . . . is this . . . not . . . is this?
How you read or interpret “this” depends on how you read it: start slowly, stop, pause and continue. Try it . Marcel Duchamp came up with this. (No, not this, this!)
Sound loopy? I agree, and, may I recommend:
� Douglas Hofstadter’s I Am a Strange Loop
� The drawings and prints of M. C. Escher
� Kurt Godel’s On Formally Undecidable Propositions
� Samuel Beckett’s The Unnameable
� A good collection of Zen Koans
Smell a rose or two today and see (be). In the words of Gertrude Stein: “A rose is a rose is a rose.” If all else fails, and no amount of roses or words avail, then just laugh, yell, think, scream, and then laugh some more and take a peek in a nearby mirror.
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