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(In reply to Lucia's message posted on Friday, 13 June 2008 at 21:47 GMT)


 tom123b writes in reply to Lucia:
Asinine
His idea of ''strange loop'' is original. What a lot of readers seem not to have realized is the ''strangeness'' comes from the idea of downward causality, when the apparent cause-and-effect relationship in a system is flipped upside-down. Hofstadter is the first to take this idea from Godel's Incomplete Theorem and apply it to understanding consciousness. (see pg. 169-170 in the book.)
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