Douglas Hofstadter — I Am A Strange Loop
Simulation
Nirvana Is a Level Crossing Feedback Loop
Most people are so stuck in their eye that they can't access this door to cessation of the eye. So they won't taste Nirvana until they turn inward. A level crossing feedback loop whose apparent solidity dominates the reality of everything else in the world. This eye, this unreal but unutterably stubborn marble in the mind, this epiphenomenon simply takes over and from there on out it won't go away. No matter what words are spoken.
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