STRANGE LOOPS, VICARIOUS CAUSATION, AND MORE-THAN-HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS: TOWARD A POST-ANTHROPOCENTRIC SYNTHESIS OF HARMAN AND HOFSTADTER.
This essay conjectures a novel intersection of Graham Harman’s Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO) and Douglas Hofstadter’s inquiries into human cognition. Prompted by Harman’s use of metaphor and Hofstadter’s exploration of analogy, the essay explores the origins and implications of these linguistic dev...
| Publicado en: | Cosmos & History Vol. 21; no. 2; pp. 436 - 461 |
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Ashton & Rafferty
2025
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