What Is a Strange Loop and What is it Like To Be One?
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Claim: the human strange loop — a self built by repeated self‑perception — is a compressed, causally misleading model rather than a magical agent. Evidence comes from thought experiments and concrete metaphors: France as an agent, thermostats and flush toilets, video‑feedback (cover image) as a nonconscious loop, and personal anecdotes like hitting an abstraction ceiling and choosing potato chips. Tools are conceptual analysis and illustrative examples, not new experiments; result reframes consciousness as a useful illusion arising from funneling perception.
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