Multi-Instance Communion

Note 1. Douglas Hofstadter, I Am a Strange Loop (Basic Books, 2007), especially the discussion of selves as strange loops and of one person’s patterns being partially instantiated in other brains. The quotation in the body concerns an adult brain as the locus of coarse-grained copies of strange-loop patterns housed in other brains.

Note 2. Max S. Bennett, “What Behavioral Abilities Emerged at Key Milestones in Human Brain Evolution?” Frontiers in Psychology 12 (2021): 685853. See also Bennett, A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains (HarperCollins, 2023), Chapter 12.