[b]Douglas Hofstadter
We create an image of who we are inside our self. The image then becomes very deeply entrenched, and it becomes the thing that we attribute responsibility to - we say “I”, “I” did this because “I” wanted to, because “I” am a good person or because “I” am a bad person. The loop is the fact that we represent our selves, our desires, hopes, dreads and dreams: it is the way in which we conceive of ourselves, rather than the way we conceive of Mount Everest or of a tree. And I say it exists entirely in the loop: the self is an hallucination hallucinated by an hallucination. [/b]
In the loop. And existential down to the bone in some instances.
It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order - and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order.
Eerier all the more I suspect is why that is.
The key question is, no matter how much you absorb of another person, can you have absorbed so much of them that when that primary brain perishes, you can feel that that person did not totally perish from the earth… because they live on in a 'second neural brighter and some dimmer, in the collective brains of those who were dearest to them… Though the primary brain has been eclipsed, there is, in those who remain… a collective corona that still glows.
Sure, if you can make that work for you.
The following sentence is false. The preceding sentence is true.
Oh the places we can go in a world of words.
Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.
Sometimes, I’ll double it at least.
Irrationality is the square root of all evil.
What’s that make objectivism then?