No.126
What do y'all know about Douglas Hofstadter? I've recently been studying "Godel Escher Bach" with my ladyfran, and I'm trying to blast through "I Am A Strange Loop", but alas, I am cursed with Work. How do y'all feel about his conception of the self as a complex symbol that lives not just in one mind, but potentially several? And, I mean, just general discussion about consciousness and what that entails.
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No.482
Ugh, consciousness is an illusion, and that is terrifying.
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No.485
Maybe we're all being influenced by some strange, domineering intelligence that dwells in the skies.
Or maybe everyone's just running around in circles for the hell of it.
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No.486
>>485
"We" are an illusion. "I" is an illusion. Ugh bluh, better to just throw this book out.
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No.525
Is The Game Eristic? Think about it, and I don't give a fuck if you announce that you just lost. I just lost. We all lost. That's not the point. Is participating in a "game" that has no win condition and is more of an anti-game our sort of thing? To me, it bears a fair amount of similarity to Sink, except that other people don't have to know you're playing until you make them lose, too.
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No.527
>>525
I just lost the game.
But yeah, it is entropy embodied; its the laws of thermodynamics as a game.
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No.561
The dissolution of the self iinto memes
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No.562
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No.814
>>525
You can stalemate the game by living and dying in a complete void of the game. Which is theoretically possible, most people did/do it all over the world.
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No.837
>>527
Chaos isn't the same as entropy (If there even is such a thing as entropy). Entropy basically implies that matter is constantly degenerating, whether matter is constantly in the process of degeneration/ regeneration is a matter of opinion.
Chaos to me, is simply symbolic of this process of transformation itself.
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