Reality Is A Strange Loop - The Beauty Of Paradox + GRAPHICS

Strange Loops - A guided tour through Douglas Hofstadter's paradoxical concept of 'strange loops', and what they reveal about the ultimate nature of existence and consciousness.

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Special Thanks & Graphic Credits:

Turquoise Penrose Triangle:
Anton Kononov

Varios pictures & animations:

Twisted Donut animation:
Jacobo Zabludovsky

Rainbow Spiral animation & Strange Attractors animation:
David Szakaly

Waterfall animation:
Owen Chikazawa

Wheel Forever animation:
David Whyte

Swirling Dots animation:
Iain Acton

Drawing Hands & Relativity:
M.C. Escher

GEB Recursion:
Alexandre Duret-Lutz

Unknown Artists:
Please contact me for credit.

[ActualizedOrg]

I would like to thank some of the artists whose wonderful work was featured in this video:

Turquoise Penrose Triangle:
Anton Kononov

Twisted Donut animation:
Jacobo Zabludovsky

Rainbow Spiral animation & Strange Attractors animation:
David Szakaly

Waterfall animation:
Owen Chikazawa

Dot Recursion animation:
David Whyte

Swirling Dots animation:
Iain Acton

Drawing Hands & Relativity:
M.C. Escher

GEB Recursion:
Alexandre Duret-Lutz

Unknown Artists:
Please contact me for credit.

[brettpansan]

Strange Loopz - the breakfast choice of enlightened kids everywhere!

[holistic_dan]

I love that look on Leo's face when he drops some knowledge on us and he looks like a happy little kid with a "I nailed it didn't I" expression in his eyes.

[tiagobinz]

I am a student of Computer Science. The first time I really understood recursion mathematically I started crying, and never really understood why, but when I noticed all the implications of that phenomena I had a very beautiful experience. I think that's worth sharing.

[ninamargaritacook]

"Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror." - Kahlil Gibran

[Wheelie.Bin.]

The thing I like about Leo's videos is they seem to encourage the kind of mindset in which you value the scientific method as one of our greatest tools for exploring reality but don't put it upon the highest of pedestals where every last buck stops.

[rahul_sr]

In the context of understanding consciousness and the self, reading the Hindu Text Ashtavakra Gita offers profound, straightforward insights. It aligns closely with ideas like Hofstadter's strange loop, revealing the illusion of the self and the nature of reality.

[Johncena-bklg]

it's like rock beats scissor, and scissors beats paper and paper beats rock

[samrat]

At around age of 5, my dad built sets of wardrobes for his room. All doors of the closets had tall mirrors installed on them. When the two side by side closet doors where opened widely, an infinity mirror world would manifest in between. I used to play in between the mirrored doors for hours everyday, looking for my beginnings and my ends. One day, i was so mesmerised by the infinity of the mirrors, that i got lost in them. To this day, I haven't been found again.

[zoebasil]

Reminds me of a poem by Rumi:

Gazing at the Light

The lamps are different,
But the Light is the same.
So many garish lamps in the dying brain’s lamp-show,
Forget about them.
Concentrate on the essence, concentrate on the Light.
In lucid bliss, calmly smoking off its own holy fire,
The Light streams towards you from all things,
All people, all possible permutations of good, evil, thought, passion.
The lamps are different,
but the Light is the same.
One matter, one energy, one Light, one Light-mind,
Endlessly emanating all things.
One turning and burning diamond,
One, one, one.
Ground yourself, strip yourself down,
To blind loving silence.
Stay there, until you see
You are gazing at the Light
With its own ageless eyes.

- Jalal-ud-Din Rumi

[Wesinhuman]

Yes yes and YES. We live in a zero energy universe because we are nothing, and infinity. It must be an illusion to even exist, it's perfect, and the ultimate life affirming epiphany. Once you get this, you can engage with life again and see that it was made for you, and by you. Much love to you Leo, thank you so much for you work.

[LilMilkable]

The fact that you manage to talk about strange loops for more than an hour without actually explaining anything about them, having at the same time all the facial and tonal expressions of someone that is successfully explaining the subject, somehow feels like confirming that you in fact are a strange loop.

[Johncena-bklg]

Leo, this sort of reminds me of spiral dynamics, which fundamentally shows the ego being built up from nothing to become tolerable enough to let go off and become nothing again

[AshlynnAspires]

Sometimes I have strange glimpses when I am just in the moment. And I thought to myself, “this is it. It just is. It’s perfect. It just is...” and then I got back to being the egoic self.

[UnicornTuber]

as eckhart tolle wrote it in "The Power of Now" - if you've really understood being - you will BE IT

[danalyze]

From how to make your girlfriend squirt to the fundamental building blocks of reality

[FantaziiLive]

The ending nearly made me cry . . so good

[DavidMillerVideos]

The degree of profundity of any teaching should be measured by the number of times the teacher says "Tuh-Dah". Thank you Leo 😊

[Miraduel]

No matter how compelling these arguments seem to me, I still entertain the idea that they could be in the wrong ball park completely, and there's no way we can really know. We all leave as clueless as we come

[FredDavisNonduality]

This video is superb! I help big-brained people see and orient to This every day, and it is always, always exciting! You've made it fun, too! Thanks so much!