What is an "I", and why are such things found (at least so far) only in association with, as poet Russell Edson once wonderfully phrased it, "teetering bulbs of dread and dream" - that is, only in association with certain kinds of gooey lumps encased in hard protective shells mounted atop mobile pedestals that roam the world on pairs of slightly fuzzy, jointed stilts?
Douglas HofstadterSome of us, perhaps all of us, believe that it is legitimate to kill enemy soldiers in a war, as if war were a special circumstance that shrinks the sizes of enemy souls.
Douglas HofstadterHofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law
Douglas HofstadterIt is an inherent property of intelligence that it can jump out of a task which it is performing and survey what it has done.
Douglas Hofstadter