Douglas Hofstadter on Loops, Beauty, Free Will, AI, God, Utopia and Gaza

A really likeable person. GEB was highly regarded in my peer group. I should have read it more naively myself. But this interview makes me want to read "I am a strange loop".

https://www.ams.org/notices/200707/tx070700852p.pdf

(too bad that I don't like the word "mysterian", otherwise I would join the club)

> The current collective insanity that has swept over half of America is a fact.

This is why they lose. Boring and wrong narrative to feel superior. The choice to remain confused is self-protecting delusion.