BCIG Bookclub: “I Am a Strange Loop”
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BCIG volunteers will review the book. Click here to see the program.
Volunteers: Contact Carl Leonard 301-496-0191,
cleonard@lired.com
Clinical
Center (Building 10) Medical Board Room (Room 2C116)
THE PROGRAM: BCIG Volunteers will review the book
and a group dialogue will follow
Presenters:
Jim DeLeo
Preface: The Author and His Book
Prologue: An Affable Locking of Horns
Jerry Chandler
Ch 1: On Souls and their Sizes
Ch 2: This Teetering Bulb of Dread and Dawn
Ch 3: The Causal Potency of Patterns
Kim Thompson
Ch 4: Loops, Goals, and Loopholes
Ch 5: On Video Feedback
Ch 6: Of Selves and Symbols
Chuck Selden
Ch 7: The Epi Phenomenon
Ch 8: Embarking on a Strange-Loop Safari
Ch 9: Pattern and Provability
David Stiles
Ch 10: Gödel's Quintessential Strange Loop
Ch 11: How Analogy Makes Meaning
Ch 12: On Downward Causality
Gerald McLaughlin
Ch 13: The Elusive Apple of My "I"
Ch 14: Strangeness in the "I" of the Beholder
Ch 15: Entwinement
Nada Vydelingum
Ch 16: Grappling with the Deepest Mystery
Ch 17: How We Live in Each Other
Ch 18: The Blurry Glow of Human Identity
Bill Moore
Ch 19: Consciousness = Thinking
Ch 20: A Courteous Crossing of Words
Ch 21: A Brief Brush with the Cartesian Egos
Ellen Bicknell
Ch 22: A Tango with Zombies and Dualism
Ch 23: Killing a Couple of Sacred Cows
Ch 24: On Magnanimity and Friendship
Jim DeLeo
Epilogue: The Quandary
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5:30 pm- 7:30 pm February 28, 2008
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Hofstadter
http://www.cogs.indiana.edu/people/homepages/hofstadter.html
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/people/d/dughof.html
http://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/hofstadter/
http://www.bizcharts.com/stoa_del_sol/conscious/conscious2.html
SUITABILITY:
Anyone interested in the subject matter of the book is most welcome to attend
this BCIG Book Club Event.
REGISTRATION:
As with most all BCIG events, registration is not required. Just show up happy.
NIH CONTACT:
Carl Leonard, 301-496-0191,
cleonard@lired.com
REFRESHMENTS:
Please bring refreshments if you wish. There is a cafeteria near our meeting
room. We may go out to dinner with the author in a nearby Bethesda restaurant
after the meeting.
BCIG WEB SITE:
www.nih-bcig.org
BOOK REVIEW:
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=C7265AEC-E7F2-99DF-3B3A60DE6200D457&chanID=sa006&colID=12
http://www.amazon.com/Am-Strange-Loop-Douglas-Hofstadter/dp/0465030785
http://www.huge-entity.com/forum/discussion/52/i-am-a-strange-loop-from-douglas-r-hofstadter/
http://www.perseusbooksgroup.com/basic/
book_detail.jsp?isbn=0465030785
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_a_Strange_Loop
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