An Interview with Douglas R. Hofstadter, following ''I am a Strange Loop''

		Rich Falzone writes: An Interview with Douglas R. Hofstadter, following ''I am a Stra I just now (in 2012) discovered this website. I notice the last post was in 2010, and I hope it's not too late now (in 2012) to add my own thoughts. I read GEB, Mind's I & etc. in the 80's, Le Bon Ton and Strange Loop more recently. I am very impressed with Hofstadter's writings, and his intellect which gives them such force. I was very impressed with GEB at the time I read it, and was convinced that yes, the basis of conscious thought just had to be software - how could it be otherwise? These days (in my 70's) I dunno. The conceptual framework of H. Sapiens may not be powerful enough to capture the concepts required to understand consciousness. Kind of like a parakeet trying to understand long division. In any case, I think that to understand consciousness one must first understand the fundamental nature of physical existence itself. This is not meant to be pessimistic! Merely realistic.
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