Strange Loops Mega-Thread

[Leo Gura]

A forum member suggested we start this mega-thread, so here it is.

Contribute any images, quotes, videos, examples of strange loops here.

What is a strange loop?

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"And yet when I say 'strange loop', I have something else in mind — a less concrete, more elusive notion. What I mean by 'strange loop' is — here goes a first stab, anyway — 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 short, a strange loop is a paradoxical level-crossing feedback loop."

-- Douglas Hofstadter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_loop

[Leo Gura]

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[How to be wise]

52 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

A forum member suggested we start this mega-thread, so here it is.

Contribute any images, quotes, videos, examples of strange loops here.

What is a strange loop?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_loop

I still don’t understand how strange loops is real. I’ve never heard a non-duality teacher talking about strange loops. 

[Crystalous]

What is the colour a mirror actually has?

Edited July 5, 2018 by Crystalous

[Clayman]

Thought of Nietzsche and a thought came.

How could something arise out of its opposite. To be more, one has to let go of what he is, when one is more, he is less, ....

Also a personal view came into mind, on Mimir and Odin. To see more, you have let go of the organ that you thought could see, give your eye to Mimir. Be more by becoming less.

Edited July 5, 2018 by Clayman

[Leo-Tzu]

 

[Sri McDonald Trump Maharaj]

Stage orange strange loop:

 

Edited July 6, 2018 by Sri McDonald Trump Maharaj

[KnockingFromInside]

I don't think this is technically a strange loop, but it is loopy!

[Leo Gura]

This sentence is false.

[Leo Gura]

2 hours ago, How to be wise said:

I still don’t understand how strange loops is real. I’ve never heard a non-duality teacher talking about strange loops. 

Strange loops are the result of a finite mind trying to grasp infinity.

[Leo Gura]

 

[Leo Gura]

 

[lmfao]

The universe created Stewie for the purpose of Stewie creating the universe.

Not sure if it's a strangeloop, but it's a circular chain of causation beyond logic. 

[Jamie Universe]

We have infinity, and we have whole numbers like 1, 2, 3.... If you have some many of your whole numbers you'll eventually reach an infinite amount. But if you notice the are between 1 and 2 for example is made of infinity. cuz 1 - 1.1 - 1.01 - 1.001 there's no limit to how many zeros I can add behind that decimal point aka infinity.

So yea I think this is a strange loop because you get infinity from itself?...

 

[Revolutionary Think]

   

[Colin]

[Neptune2020]

@Leo Gura When you say infinity, does this mean the concept of infinity in say calculus?

[Leo Gura]

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"This sentence contradicts itself — no actually it doesn't."

— Douglas Hofstadter