" Laws of Form " are the foundation for mathematics based on the fundamental idea of categorization. Any freshman course will show how all of mathematics is built up on the foundation of set theory - the logic of categories. Even in High School, we are taught that there is no such thing as a "real" circle - in the real world, things that we call circles are actually only approximately circular. But we are left with the idea that a circle is a "real thing". "More real", in fact, than the circles of actual experience. We take the form of distinction for the form." There is a circularity in bringing into words what is quite clear without them. And yet it is in the bringing forth into formalisms that mathematics is articulated and universes of discourse come into being. The elusive beginning, before there was a difference, is the eye of the storm, the calm center from which these musings spring. There is a delicious circularity in this idea - so

If we are to think seriously about the consciousness and he brain, we need to consider the work of Douglas Hofstadter , the preeminent modern thinker on the subject. Hofstadter coined the term "neosphere" as the universe of memes , or ideas. In "I Am A Strange Loop", he explores what we mean when we say "I". Along the way, we learn to picture our mind in a completely new way, as a dynamic generator of memes, woven out of other memes and episodic memory. What we experience as "I" is the "master meme", the name we give to the process of meme-weaving we experience at any moment. The "master meme" is self referential or "recursive", which means it includes itself as part of its "explanation" of what is going on. Our language requires an "experiencer" for every experience, and this experiencer is (recursively) called "I" as well. This is Hofstader's  "Strange Loop". According to