Self-reference and the “I”

Posted on February 9, 2021 by Georg

Where does art come from? I imag­ine a cer­tain anal­o­gy with the dis­course and dis­cus­sions about whether math­e­mat­ics is “out there” and we dis­cov­er it, or if we cre­ate math­e­mat­ics? If you look at your­self in the mir­ror; who or what is look­ing at you? The self-ref­er­ence. Dou­glas Hof­s­tadter devel­ops the theme and so much more in his rich and inter­est­ing book “I am a strange loop.” The cre­ative self; there are those who in con­ver­sa­tion say “I think …” but still deny that some­thing like one I exist. Inter­est­ing. Can aware­ness rec­og­nize itself? You look at your­self; what do mir­ror neu­rons reflect?

Any­way, cre­at­ing is nice I think. And I think my brain agrees.

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Writer & Photographic artist
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