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	Strange loop - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A strange loop is a case of self-reference which affects (or even damages) the original item, possibly causing a paradox.
		This, by itself, is not enough to be a strange loop (it is merely self reference, and is common practice for a compiler).
		An example of a strange loop in software is a quine, which is a program that produces a new version of itself.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Strange_loop (230 words)

	Strange loop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A strange loop is a case of self-reference which affects (or even damages) the item possibly causing a paradox.
		Strange loops often involve violation of hierarchies in which (for example) a computer (rather than a person) writes computer programs.
		Strange loops are frequently intriguing or even A sketch on Late Night with Conan O'Brien once had Conan (seemingly spontaneously) become with a cue-card holder and tell him leave the set; immediately the cue-card holder shown holding a card with Conan's "you'd leave" line written on it.
	www.freeglossary.com /Strange_loop (376 words)

	Thought Loop
		It is also somewhat related to Robert Anton Wilson's concept of strange loops, mathematical limits and recursive loops.
		Once you start to loop, this means you are either at or approaching the end of your experience of reality.
		Once you begin to loop here is where you have reached the end of the world, so don't fall off.
	www.plebius.org /encyclopedia.php?term=Thought+Loop (383 words)

	Strange loop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A strange loop is a case of self-reference whichaffects (or even damages) the original item, possibly causing a paradox.
		Strange loops often involve violation of hierarchies, in which (for example) acomputer program (rather than a person) writes computer programs.
		This, by itself, is not enough to be a strange loop (it'smerely self reference, and is common practice for a compiler).
	www.therfcc.org /strange-loop-5700.html (207 words)

	Agency
		Strange loop phenomena emerge "whenever, by moving upwards (or downwards) through the levels of some hierarchical system, we unexpectedly find ourselves right back where we started" (10).
		The resolution, curiously enough, is a loop at the core of Greenblatt's cultural poetics: the structure of the archive determines for us the units of perception within which we view traces of culture, to determine the structure of the archive.
		As we observed at the outset here, the infinity of the loop is not inherent in the structure of the output but in the way we choose to make sense of the patterns, what we imagined to have preceded the present text and to be likely to come after.
	pandora.nla.gov.au /pan/10308/20030922/www.media-culture.org.au/0208/agency.html (2886 words)

	Strange loop -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A strange loop is a case of (Click link for more info and facts about self-reference) self-reference which affects (or even damages) the original item, possibly causing a ((logic) a self-contradiction) paradox.
		This, by itself, is not enough to be a strange loop (it is merely self reference, and is common practice for a ((computer science) a program that decodes instructions written in a higher order language and produces an assembly language program) compiler).
		An example of a strange loop in software is a (United States philosopher and logician who championed an empirical view of knowledge that depended on language (1908-2001)) quine, which is a program that produces a new version of itself.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/st/strange_loop.htm (347 words)

	Mathematical Labyrinths - Gödel, Escher, Bach (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Escher realized Strange Loops in several different ways, and they can be arranged according to the tightness of the loop.
		In the examples we have seen of Strange Loops by Bach and Escher, there is a conflict between the finite and the infinte, and hence a strong sense of paradox.
		That is because the Strange Loop is buried in the oyster--the proof.
	www.geocities.com /g0del_escher_bach/geb.html (1811 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In evolution and learning, one such strange loop, the Baldwin effect, was proposed over a century ago, and has been studied computationally for the past 15 years.
		Similarly, the redistribution effect occurs in simulation under specific initial conditions: too little vitamin C in the environment, and its synthesis it is never fully masked; too much vitamin C, and the abilities required to acquire it are not tightly integrated.
		Both the Baldwin and the redistribution effects can be considered strange loops in the interactions between genotype and phenotype in evolution.
	www.cse.unsw.edu.au /~btonkes/papers/loops-abstract.txt (501 words)

	Genes, Macromolecules, -&- Computers Strange Loops in Biology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		is a loop that allows such a system to "perceive itself", to talk about itself, to become "self-aware", and in a sense it would not be going too far to say that by virtue of having such a loop, a formal system acquires a self.
		In general self-replication of a system can be characterised by tangled hierarchies or Strange Loops and emergent/complex behaviour when a network is created between the individual components of the system within the confines of a selective environment.
		Strange loopiness arises because of context-sensitivity in proteins (as illustrated by the IFU and beta-strand pairing example).
	www.ram.org /ramblings/dream/strangeloops.html (579 words)

	[No title]
		As I have suggested, some strange loops between performance and technology were installed very early on in the formation of the field, loops which can be traced to the first theorist Schechner lists in his outline of performance studiesÕ intellectual history: Gregory Bateson.
		In fact, restored behavior can be thought of as the ÒmicroÓ loop within an immense feedback system whose ÒmacroÓ loops Schechner began inventing earlier in his career: the relations of entertainment and efficacy, of aesthetic and social drama, and of theatre and ritual were all theorized using feedback concepts.
		These loops, formative to the performance studies paradigm, situate the embodied, transformational practices of performance somewhere between those of ritual and theatre, in a liminal space of historic proportions.
	www.nyu.edu /classes/bkg/pise.txt (6405 words)

	strange loop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The band System of a Down did the same later with the album Steal This Album.
		This, by itself, is not enough to be a strange loop (it's merely self reference, and is common practice for a compiler).
		But it would be a strange loop if a program were to produce a new version of itself.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Strange_loop.html (262 words)

	RE: strange loops
		While I haven't looped specifically in the terms you mentioned yet, there are a couple of things I like to do which evolve loops musically in addition to evolving using sonic textures.
		One is to begin a loop in a certain key, or with the illusion of a certain key, and then gradually introduce certain specific notes which give the loop a dissonant quality, and then bring out the tone of a new key, resolving the perceived dissonance.
		Another idea I like is to bring out different modal ideas from a loop either by evolving the loop, soloing different ways along with it, or by adding to it, and then subtracting again, and then going somewhere else...
	www.loopers-delight.com /LDarchive/200211/msg00025.html (728 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Godel Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Loosely defined, Strange Loops are observed in hierarchical systems wherein by moving upwards (or to a higher plane) or downwards (to a lower plane), we end up at where we have started.
		The loop essentially represents a never-ending process in a finite number of steps; the concept of infinity is inherently ingrained in Strange Loops.
		There is Strange Loop inherent in Gödel's work, to prove the "Incompleteness Theorem", one has to embark upon writing a self-referential Mathematical statement.
	www.epinions.com /content_55857417860 (1058 words)

	Angel Tech (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It is strange for at least two reasons: 1) The more you try and figure it out, the more you get stuck inside and 2) If you stop trying to figure it out and start "living it out," the more, uh, strange things get.
		However, what is strange from one perspective remains quite ordinary from another, and vice versa.
		The text herein explores and defines what could be one of the primary strange loops of being human.
	www.newfalcon.com /excerpts/angel_tech_e.htm (864 words)

	Organizational Effectiveness: He's No Longer Here; vestigial systems, strange loops
		Strangely, though, the decisions often stick long after the advocates move on.
		This mechanism is called a "strange loop." Strange loops are common in complex systems such as human organizations, where they often make change very difficult.
		Strange Loops are discussed at length in Douglas Hofstadter's Goedel, Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid.
	www.chacocanyon.com /pointlookout/040128.shtml (1141 words)

	Perspective of Mind: Douglas Hofstadter
		Strange Loops are a kind of iteration, and there is also a correspondence to be found in fractal geometry.
		The iterations of Strange Loops could also be compared with those present in the feedback cycle of chaos and order.
		Strange Loops, feedback cycles, and iterations are mechanisms of the creative complexity of intelligence; they are, for Hofstadter, the retrieval mechanisms of inner meaning.
	www.bizcharts.com /stoa_del_sol/conscious/conscious2.html (1285 words)

	Genes, Macromolecules, -&- Computers Overview
		And the strange flavour of AI work is that people try to put together long sets of rules in strict formalisms which tell inflexible machines how to be flexible.
		A deoxyribsose nucleic acid (DNA) molecule is a double-stranded chain of nucleic acids, held together by phospho-diester and hydrogen bonds, acting as the brain of a cell.
		I claim that the recognition of Strange Loops in biological systems, and reproducing them within a computer, will result in artificial intelligence (AI) and artificial life.
	www.ram.org /ramblings/dream/overview.html (994 words)

	Strange Loops - an Astronomy Net God & Science Forum Message
		And the 'loop' loops loop, that is: the loop 'knows' (loop) that it knows (loop).
		So you've ended out with a 3-in-1 loop; which I have suggested is what existence is like: to exist is to be 3-in-1, it would seem.
		Strange loops don't close up - pmartin - November 11, 2001 - 21:51 UTC
	www.astronomy.net /forums/god/messages/12218.shtml (413 words)

	Philosophy of science - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Arguments made against greedy reductionism through reference to emergent phenomena rely upon the fact that self-referential systems can be said to contain more information than can be described through individual analysis of their component parts.
		Examples include systems that contain strange loops, fractal organisation and strange attractors in phase space.
		Analysis of such systems is necessarily information-destructive because the observer must select a sample of the system that can be at best partially representative.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Philosophy_of_science (2751 words)

	Identity and Cultural Exchange 600-1600: Philippa Semper, 'The stranger within: Ohthere at the Court of King Alfred'
		He is also a stranger to the language in which his account is described, and to the concerns of local, national and international identity that are addressed through the insertion of his account into the Orosius and the interaction of that account with the geo-political description of Northern Europe.
		His 'strangeness' on all these fronts forms the underside to the superficially smooth appropriation of the Orosius by the OE translator, resulting in an uneasy acculturation that is unpicked even as it is woven in.
		In its fragmentary representation of identity, the text can only gesture towards a cultural experience that cannot be recovered; in its operation through structures of simple and complex difference and likeness, it traces the outline of a strange loop that threatens to turn back on itself and dissolve the very identity it delineates.
	www.english.bham.ac.uk /medievalstudies/ice/semper.htm (3093 words)

	Jean Yves Girard On Goedel Escher Bach
		I think that Girard is entitled to ridicule a whole book that fantasizes about these "strange loops" to "explain" in an awkward and almost mystical language what can be done in one page, like Girard just does in the article.
		Excursion into scientific things that have nothing to do with his philosophical musings (no, there's no connection between Goedel and whatever "strange loops" Hofstadter thinks are in his brain), are designed to fool the gullible and impressionable reader into thinking that his thesis has some kind of scientific legitimacy.
		Strange loop just means recursive representation, and is neither undefined nor intended to be mystical.
	www.c2.com /cgi/wiki?JeanYvesGirardOnGoedelEscherBach (3406 words)

	Papers dealing with strange quarks
		Leinweber and A. Thomas, "A Lattice QCD Analysis of the Strangeness Magnetic Moment of the Nucleon", Phys.
		Watabe, and K. Goeke, "Strange vector form factors of the nucleon in the SU(3) chiral quark-soliton model with the proper kaonic cloud", Nucl.
		Alberico et al., "Strange form factors of the proton: a new analysis of the neutrino (antineutrino) data of the BNL-734 experiment", Nucl.
	www.jlab.org /~jroche/strange_quarks_papers.html (756 words)

	DDP 690 abstract
		The result is a development domain riddled with strange loops.
		Escape from strange loops requires the establishment of a hierarchy that enables clear judgments and suggests directions or guidelines for action.
		We need new development strategies that (1) increase our understanding of the educational process and its reform, (2) recognize the complexities of the domain, and (3) are based on better analyses and utilization of systemic and programmatic information.
	www.ksg.harvard.edu /cid/hiid/690abs.html (501 words)

	Spiraloid
		Below I selected some loops which I thought were good, or at least better than previous models.
		And the next one is a strange loop that I found in my model.
		I think that getting strange loops like that is just a natural side effect of the process.
	cube.phlatt.net /forums/spiraloid/viewtopic.php?TopicID=75 (409 words)

	Eric's Recommended Books
		Hofstadter demonstrates strange loops in logic, brain and mind, mathematics, philosophy, computers, and DNA.
		Strange loops allow a system to say things about itself, and hence a mind can think about itself and a mathematical system can prove itself to be incomplete.
		More than that, a strange loop has a power on the system; it affects and constrains the system.
	edp.org /books.htm (1180 words)

	Geoff Arnold: Douglas Hofstadter in town [UPDATED]
		He gave a lecture to our Phil.of Mind class at Tufts entitled "What is it like to be a strange loop?", and he's talking at the Media Lab in MIT tomorrow.
		In GEB, you may remember, the strange - and unexpectedly stable - patterns generated by pointing a video camera at the screen displaying its output were a powerful example (and metaphor) for the way these ideas come together.
		(2) My interpretation of "strange loops" is that Doug is talking about feedback loops that cross various kinds of boundaries: between the physical and the cognitive, between the outside world and the I-in-the-world (in terms of action and perception), and across minds (from one person to another).
	www.geoffarnold.com /mt-archives/000487.html (400 words)

	CONTEXT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He talks about how hand washes other hand and two people converse, and though a loop is present in such an action, it does not feel strange.
		But it would not feel strange because there was no hierarchy present to begin with.
		On the other hand, where language does create strange loops is when it talks about itself, whether directly or indirectly.
	people.interaction-ivrea.it /n.sopieva/18.html (228 words)

	Flatline_Constructs 4.7 Capitalism as Toy Story: Hyperfiction, Strange Loops and Rhizomes
		Increasingly, children are presented with toys and fictional systems which emerge together, in a loop.
		At one level, the strange loop is a way of describing chicken-and-egg processes in which the product of any process is also one of its founding presuppositions.
		Which is to say: what might ultimately separate the strange loop from the rhizome is that, in the former, hierarchy is simply tangled, whereas in the latter it is radically abolished.
	www.cinestatic.com /trans-mat/Fisher/FC4s7.htm (1811 words)

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