42 An Eye for an I (1)
Written by Normand Bourque on Aug 30, 2013 “You and I are mirages who perceive themselves, and the sole magical machinery behind the scenes is perception — the triggering, by huge flows of raw data, of a tiny set of symbols that stand for abstract regularities in the world. When perception at arbitrarily high levels of abstraction enters the world of physics and when feedback loops galore come into play, then “which” eventually turns into “who”. Douglas Hofstader, I am a Str
By: Normand Bourque