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Re:Douglas Hofstadter: Analogy as the Core of Cognition [video] by sodiumjoe on Thursday September 10, 2026 @06:47PM (#49651162)
Isn't there a basic misreading of Hofstadter in this post? I always understood strange loop and GEB to be about consciousness not cognition.

Weirdly, Aaronson doesn't even seem to be conflating the two:

> Consciousness and subjective experience of course remain extremely mysterious.

I think he's just misreading Hofstadter as stating that cognition depends on self-reference?

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