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Denken is bedacht : de geschiedenis van de kwaliteit van het sociaal-wetenschappelijk denken in de 20e eeuw. Skinner, Freud, Maslow, Lacan.
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ISBN: 9050130119 Year: 1988 Publisher: Culemborg Giordano


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Rechtsmiddelen
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ISBN: 9002124368 Year: 1973 Publisher: Antwerpen Standaard

Comparative studies of how people think : an introduction.
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ISBN: 0674152603 0674152611 Year: 1981 Publisher: Cambridge Harvard university


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Religiöse Herrscherlegitimation im Achämenidischen Iran : die Voraussetzungen und die Struktur ihrer Argumentation
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ISBN: 9068313894 Year: 1992 Publisher: Leuven : Leiden : Editions Peeters diff. E. J. Brill,

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Iran au fil des jours
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ISBN: 2738406068 Year: 1990 Publisher: Paris L'Harmattan

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Human intelligence: perspectives and prospects
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ISBN: 0716716895 0716716887 9780716716891 9780716716884 Year: 1985 Publisher: New York Freeman

I am a strange loop
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ISBN: 9780465030781 0465030785 9780465030798 Year: 2007 Publisher: New York : BasicBooks,

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What do we mean when we say "I"? Can thought arise out of matter? Can a self, a soul, a consciousness, an "I" arise out of mere matter? If it cannot, then how can you or I be here? I Am a Strange Loop argues that the key to understanding selves and consciousness is the "strange loop"--a special kind of abstract feedback loop inhabiting our brains. Deep down, a human brain is a chaotic seething soup of particles, on a higher level it is a jungle of neurons, and on a yet higher level it is a network of abstractions that we call "symbols." The most central and complex symbol in your brain or mine is the one we both call "I." The "I" is the nexus in our brain where the levels feed back into each other and flip causality upside down, with symbols seeming to have free will and to have gained the paradoxical ability to push particles around, rather than the reverse. For each human being, this "I" seems to be the realest thing in the world. But how can such a mysterious abstraction be real--or is our "I" merely a convenient fiction? Does an "I" exert genuine power over the particles in our brain, or is it helplessly pushed around by the all-powerful laws of physics? These are the mysteries tackled in I Am a Strange Loop, Douglas R. Hofstadter's first book-length journey into philosophy since Godel, Escher, Bach. Compulsively readable and endlessly thought-provoking, this is the book Hofstadter's many readers have long been waiting for.

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