Comment by sodiumjoe

Isn't there a basic misreading of Hofstadter in this post? I always understood strange loop and GEB to be about consciousness not cognition.

Weirdly, Aaronson doesn't even seem to be conflating the two:

> Consciousness and subjective experience of course remain extremely mysterious.

I think he's just misreading Hofstadter as stating that cognition depends on self-reference?