Recent read: Mind’s I

Mind’s I: Douglas R Hofstadter, Daniel C. Dennett

It is kind of book that sets tumults up in your thinking part, you begin to try to distance your “self” with a new point of view. To a diehard reductionist, this book is a treat of anthology with nicely articulate articles. The basic premise is around the very question you tend to ask but never get any satisfactory answer on the nature of consciousness in scientific framework.
‘Non Servium’ by Lem is one of the best and closest descriptions I felt.
Some of the essays on reductionism and holism are fascinating. It kinda triggered some thoughts and lead to some catchy T-shirt messages.

Here is what it is..

Curing test, explained by the book as a corner stone for AI aficionados, as makes one feel that a machine can be programmed the way human mind is programmed in brain.
The book explores the possibility of different organizational structure between what is represented in us and other self aware entities. It goes to the extent that the notion of self is a mere consequence and matter of conditioning for neuro-bio-physio elements which constitute a human.