Douglas Hofstadter — I Am A Strange Loop
Simulation
The Self Invention of Consciousness
It's cool because the mirage or rainbow analogy to the self invention of consciousness. How conscious this hallucinates itself into existence. Though especially the rainbow aspect to that, it reminds us a lot of the nirmana kaya from zokchan Buddhism. So creature behavior desires wants, eye and all powerful and yet non-existent. It's pretty direct guys, an abstract pattern gives rise to what feels like a self. so funny. Change your whole life with eye and then it dissolves.
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