Morgan’s Reviews > I Am a Strange Loop > Status Update

Over half way - very very interesting, glad I preserved. Next onto entwinement (the idea there’s more than one strange loop in the brain).

Idea that an innate blindness to smaller forces in the world makes us hallucinate the world from “I” on this larger level. We can’t focus on the micro-machinery that makes our minds tick!

Got through most of the boring maths and logic stuff - so dull but I see how it’s important for an analogy that runs throughout the book.

On numbers and mathematical theorems - I find this very very dry, why author says it is needed for context further down the line. Gonna take a gruelling effort to get through these next couple chapters!

Epiphenomona, I-ness, and leading into strange loops

Hofstadter on I-ness: reception vs. perception, generating a self-image as humans were animals arguably can’t

Very interesting, Hostadter uses metaphors to explain complex theories around causality, perception and predictability.

Chapter 1 - looking at vegetarianism in Douglas’s life as an example of ‘strange loops’ and awareness of souledness and levels of consciousness complexity.