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Matryoshka Theaters

Jun 27, 2007
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A wonderful song (and more even, the movie they made out of it). Multiple theatrical performances, enclosed into each other; and we, watching it on YouTube, are just yet another Russian matryoshka wrapping few other dolls inside us (and being observed by the eye of somebody else.)

I Am a Strange Loop

Jun 8, 2007
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I Am a Strange Loop

Douglas Hofstadter

The book I am currently reading, and enjoying when doing so; Hofstadter is a cult writer, and a thinker for many people, but I somehow missed his aura when reading (or rather browsing through) his voluminous EGB.

But now I fell in love with his style, and a wit with which he writes; as a bonus track, I also like the what he writes about consciousness, and reflexivity, and self-organization and other similar 'simple' things.

I don't buy his ideas entirely, and I simply didn't finish the book yet, but I would already like to write a post or two with the quotes from the book, and some thoughts of mine. Will do, perhaps later, when finish reading the book.

Second Mirror

Jun 3, 2007
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Second Mirror

One aside observation when visiting the Swedish Embassy in Second Life - I found a change room (where I presume one can try various clothes given, or to be given away at the site). What stroked me is the lack of reflection in the mirror. I don't remember even seeing in SL so far (and technically speaking it's not impossible, but quite a task for scripting, I believe.) But the very fact that it can be done (and will be with time, I am sure), makes me somehow dizzy. The same feeling that Douglas Hofstadter explores so brilliantly in his most recent book "I Am a Strange Loop".