Tag Archives: consciousness

I am a strange, sordid loop

By MattK | Published: March 17, 2008
I am reading Douglas Hofstadter’s amazing and brain churning I Am a Strange Loop, so I’m noticing loops and recursion everywhere. This dog machine loop is fascinating, I think it is a way for tennis balls to become soaked in saliva. Maybe it is a way to generate dog orgone? Perhaps it is a [...]
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Yes, we have a soul. But it’s made of lots of tiny robots.

By MattK | Published: August 19, 2004
I just happened to stumble upon FretDFire’s first blog entry which launched me off into a flurry of searches on Daniel C Dennet. He wrote a book called Darwin’s Dangerous Idea, which seems to contain this insightful tidbit: [I]f you want to *reason* about faith, and offer a reasoned (and reason-responsive) defense of faith [...]
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