Finally finished reading "I Am a Strange Loop"!

It was a really approachable philosophy-of-the-mind book that leans heavily into allegory and analogy, which I greatly appreciated as someone with a low attention span for dry philosophy and relatively little experience in the subject.

I felt it got a little lost in the weeds at times (especially during the math discussions) but found a lot of the ideas intuitive and convincing.

The author's own experience and privilege seem to color some of the opinions quite a bit, which left me a little concerned about swallowing the other ideas so easily... but it feels like most famous philosophers come from relatively high privilege -- who else can afford to spend their whole career just thinking about thinking?

Overall gave me lots of things to think about, and I'm quite fond of the "strange loop" concept of the self found within the book.

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