Perspectives about human mind

[Chriss]

Does anybody tried to speculate about human mind (intelligence, imagination etc.) or to emit some hypothesis of what could be ? particles or something else ... ?

What are the perspectives in that direction ?

Edited April 15, 2015 by Chriss

[Chriss]

Nothing ?

[Acme]

Nothing ?

Something! I always recommend Hofstadter, but as far as I know I have had no takers. A strange loop is a terrible thing to waste.

 

I Am a Strange Loop

 

I Am a Strange Loop is a 2007 book by Douglas Hofstadter, examining in depth the concept of a strange loop to explain the sense of "I". The concept of a strange loop was originally developed in his 1979 book Gödel, Escher, Bach.

 

In the end, we are self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages that are little miracles of self-reference.

 

Douglas Hofstadter, I Am a Strange Loop p.363

 

Hofstadter had previously expressed disappointment with how Gödel, Escher, Bach, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1980 for general nonfiction, was received. In the preface to its 20th-anniversary edition, Hofstadter laments that the book was perceived as a hodgepodge of neat things with no central theme. He states: "GEB is a very personal attempt to say how it is that animate beings can come out of inanimate matter. What is a self, and how can a self come out of stuff that is as selfless as a stone or a puddle?"[1]

 

Hofstadter seeks to remedy this problem in I Am a Strange Loop by focusing and expounding on the central message of Gödel, Escher, Bach. He demonstrates how the properties of self-referential systems, demonstrated most famously in Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem, can be used to describe the unique properties of minds.[2] ..

Edited April 15, 2015 by Acme

[Chriss]

Only this book ? nothing else ?

[Acme]

Only this book ? nothing else ?

Correct. There is absolutely nothing else except that book.

[tkadm30]

Here's a famous quote from Max Planck:

 

 

"I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness."