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I Am a Strange Loop is a 2007 book by Douglas Hofstadter, examining in depth the concept of a strange loop to explain the sense of "I". The concept of a strange loop was originally developed in his 1979 book Gödel, Escher, Bach.Hofstadter had Read More..

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Description	I Am a Strange Loop is a 2007 book by Douglas Hofstadter, examining in depth the concept of a strange loop to explain the sense of "I". The concept of a strange loop was originally developed in his 1979 book Gödel, Escher, Bach.Hofstadter had previously expressed disappointment with how Gödel, Escher, Bach, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1980 for general nonfiction, was received. In the preface to its 20th-anniversary edition, Hofstadter laments that the book was perceived as a hodgepodge of neat things with no central theme. He states: "GEB is a very personal attempt to say how it is that animate beings can come out of inanimate matter. What is a self, and how can a self come out of stuff that is as selfless as a stone or a puddle?"Hofstadter seeks to remedy this problem in I Am a Strange Loop by focusing and expounding on the central message of Gödel, Escher, Bach. He demonstrates how the properties of self-referential systems, demonstrated most famously in Gödel's incompleteness theorems, can be used to describe the unique properties of minds. An Interview with Douglas R. Hofstadter, following I am a Strange Loop, by Tal Cohen, Tal Cohen's Bookshelf, June 11, 2008As an exploration of the sense of "I", Hofstadter explores his own life, and those to whom he has been close. A New Journey into Hofstadter's Mind - book review by George Johnson in Scientific American, March 2007 Author Interview by Greg Ross, American Scientist Online, March 22, 2007 The I's Have It - book review by John Derbyshire, The Wall Street Journal, March 23, 2007 The Mind Reader New York Times Magazine, April 1, 2007
Description	I Am a Strange Loop is a 2007 book by Douglas Hofstadter, examining in depth the concept of a strange loop to explain the sense of "I". The concept of a strange loop was originally developed in his 1979 book Gödel, Escher, Bach.Hofstadter had previously expressed disappointment with how Gödel, Escher, Bach, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1980 for general nonfiction, was received. In the preface to its 20th-anniversary edition, Hofstadter laments that the book was perceived as a hodgepodge of neat things with no central theme. He states: "GEB is a very personal attempt to say how it is that animate beings can come out of inanimate matter. What is a self, and how can a self come out of stuff that is as selfless as a stone or a puddle?"Hofstadter seeks to remedy this problem in I Am a Strange Loop by focusing and expounding on the central message of Gödel, Escher, Bach. He demonstrates how the properties of self-referential systems, demonstrated most famously in Gödel's incompleteness theorems, can be used to describe the unique properties of minds. An Interview with Douglas R. Hofstadter, following I am a Strange Loop, by Tal Cohen, Tal Cohen's Bookshelf, June 11, 2008As an exploration of the sense of "I", Hofstadter explores his own life, and those to whom he has been close. A New Journey into Hofstadter's Mind - book review by George Johnson in Scientific American, March 2007 Author Interview by Greg Ross, American Scientist Online, March 22, 2007 The I's Have It - book review by John Derbyshire, The Wall Street Journal, March 23, 2007 The Mind Reader New York Times Magazine, April 1, 2007

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Name	I Am A Strange Loop
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Authors	Douglas Hofstadter
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Language	English
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Country	United States
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Pages	412 pages
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Media_type	Print (hardback)
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Isbn	978-0-465-03078-1
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Oclc	64554976
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Publisher	Basic Books
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