I am what I am
Thu Dec 06 2001 at 11:17:22
A literal translation of the Jewish Name Of God, "YAHWEH" or YHVH. Supposedly this name was revealed to Moses by the deity in question when he appeared to him in the form of a blazing bush.
Interestingly, this name takes the form of a 'strange loop' or self-referential description as described by Douglas Hofstadter in
Godel, Escher, Bach. One of Hofstadter's proposals in this book is that the phenomenon, or epiphenomenon, of consciousness, is the result of strange loops in a complex system (e.g. the human mind) which generate higher and higher levels of self-reference. Robert Anton Wilson also refers to this idea in