I Am A Strange Loop

strangle loop studies, ink and marker

“[Strange loop]…not a physical circuit but an abstract loop in which, in the series of stages that constitute the cycling-around, there is a shift from one level of abstraction (or structure) to another, which feels like an upwards movement in a hierarchy, and yet somehow the successive ‘upward’ shifts turn out to give rise to a closed cycle. That is, despite one’s sense of departing ever further from one’s origin, one winds up, to one’s shock, exactly where one had started out. In shot, a strange loop is a paradoxical level-crossing feedback loop.”  -Douglas Hofstadter in his book “I am a strange loop”

Digesting Reality
Observing/Becoming
Digesting Reality detail
Observing/Becoming detail
Observing/Becoming
Pacified Self-Destruction

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