On 4/1/10, CeJ wrote:
> CB: >>I happened to have had a personal intellectual history of studying
> paradoxes, going back to when I heard of Russell's paradox as a
> college freshman. This was before I studied dialectics , wherein
> paradoxical contradiction is central. So, I was interested in the
CB: >>I happened to have had a personal intellectual history of studying
paradoxes, going back to when I heard of Russell's paradox as a
college freshman. This was before I studied dialectics , wherein
paradoxical contradiction is central. So, I was interested in the
focus on strange loops. By and
CeJ wrote:
> The pure concentrated thesis that he never got around to stating very
> clearly in GEB is: we are conscious because we are strange loops.
CB: OK Yeah. Self-reference seems to be the culprit in generating
insoluable paradoxes in mathematics. The set of all sets that don't
contain _
For what it is worth, Merleau Ponty appeals to some in cognitive
science and in 'ecophenomenogy' (which I didn't know existed until
today) :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Merleau-Ponty#Anticognitivist_cognitive_science
Anticognitivist cognitive science
Despite Merleau-Ponty's own critical
I remember--it was actually about the same time Ayn Rand was making
her last tour of universities--when Hofstadter visited my provincial
podunk university, hawking his book. I recently just sold an
autographed copy of the trade paperback (it didn't go for much but
perhaps a hardback would be worth
Below Carrol mentions _Goedel, Escher and Bach_ which I just picked up
again lately.
CB
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