Re: Douglas Hofstadter: Going loopy over consciousness

On Mon, 02 Jul 2007 02:48:46 GMT, Sam Wormley wrote:

I Am a Strange Loop
Douglas Hofstadter
2007 Basic Books
412pp £14.99/$26.95 hb

There's something sick about you.

Hofstadter? Of all the babblers... The horror of
reading his "masterpiece" blurrs everything that I did
around 1981 or so. The sucker blew ten pages of content
up to the size of a thick fucking book with nothing but
blabbering. It is at times like this that one thinks of
a need for Stalin. When Sam tells us to pay thirty
bucks to go through it for another round. Siberia comes
to mind!

--

"hich fardi valow dar past-tarine darajAte ejtemA'
bAshad kuchek nist, va hich amali ke az 'u sar
bezanad valow joz'i va gozarAn bAshad bi'asar va
banAbar'in khAli az ahammiyat nemitavAnad bAshad."

- Mehdi Bazargan
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