I am a strange loop

Preface : an author and his book

An affable locking of horns

On souls and their sizes

This teetering bulb of dread and dream

The causal potency of patterns

Loops, goals, and loopholes

On video feedback

Of selves and symbols

The epi phenomenon

Embarking on a strange-loop safari

Pattern and provability

Gödel's quintessential strange loop

How analogy makes meaning

On downward causality

The elusive apple of my "I"

Strangeness in the "I" of the beholder

Entwinement

Grappling with the deepest mystery

How we live in each other

The blurry glow of human identity

Consciousness = thinking

A courteous crossing of words

A brief brush with Cartesian egos

A tango with zombies and dualism

Killing a couple of sacred cows

On magnanimity and friendship

Epilogue : the quandary.