I Am a Strange Loop

836 Pages·2016·4.49 MB·English

by  Hofstadter Douglas R.

Table of Contents
Praise
Title Page
Dedication
A note from the Publisher
WORDS OF THANKS
PREFACE
PROLOGUE
CHAPTER 1 - On Souls and Their Sizes
Soul-Shards
What Is It Like to Be a Tomato?
Guinea Pig
Pig
Revulsion, Revelation, Revolution
Reversion, Reevolution
The Mystery of Inanimate Flesh
Give Me Some Men Who Are Stouter-souled Men
Small-souled and Large-souled Humans
Hattie the Chocolate Labrador
Ollie the Golden Retriever
Where to Draw that Fateful, Fatal Line?
Interiority — What Has it, and to What Degree?
The Gradual Growth of a Soul
Lights On?
Post Scriptum
CHAPTER 2 - This Teetering Bulb of Dread and Dream
What Is a “Brain Structure”?
A Simple Analogy between Heart and Brain
Can Toilet Paper Think?
The Terribly Thirsty Beer Can
Levels and Forces in the Brain
Who Shoves Whom Around Inside the Cranium?