Intellectual musings based on personal experience. These are very different books, despite I am a Strange Loop being a retelling of GEB. It was either too indirect, too intricately argued, or too Germanic for me to follow, and after months of off and on attempts I finally put it aside. "I Am a Strange Loop" should not be taken to mean "Douglas Hofstadter is a strange loop". Published A bit redundant in prose, and just GEB lite when all is said and done. The workings of the human brain are described metaphorically (and not physiologically), and often those metaphors are mathematical. (Goedel, DH's guiding muse, is rightly lionized in this and other DH books; Russell -- standing in for Whitehead as well -- is all but judged a moron for failing to have seen, in the logical edifice he built, what Goedel later saw. I think there are much better ways to make this point than by talking about math. I did find, however, his account of how identity is dispersed and externalized the be somewhat unconvincing, thought not because I disagree with the concept but with his interpretation of the concept.

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".

I'm not being hyperbolic. It gets rid of the main problem I've always had with books like these: too much information. i would fanatically recommend any of his books, which are all fantastic and required reading by this point for all intellectually-minded people interested in "putting it all together".

Michael R. Jackson’s “A Strange Loop” won the Pulitzer Prize for drama on Monday. I don't understand the terminologies in your post Hoffstadter purportedly explores the nature of self-reference and consciousness, but instead, I think, spends more time pointing out through his writing how clever he is, how feeble he considers Bertrand Russell, and how much of a fan boy he (Hoffstadter) is of Godel. I consider both among my absolute favourite books, but for very different reasons. But he sure knows his way around the territory. )After about 200 pages of reading I still was unsure what the point was supposed to be. Right from the start, Hofstadter talks about how it's far better to convey scientific and philosophical truths through analogies than through hard-and-fast data. The development of his theme is slow, so I read the epilogue to find out if he was coming to anything other than where he seemed to be going. Welcome back. The development of his theme is slow, so I read the epilogue to find out if he was coming to anything other than where he seemed to be going. Can a self, a soul, a consciousness, an "I" arise out of mere matter? )This is merely a re-hash of Hofstadter's justly famous Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, with some ideas from Le Ton Beau de Marot thrown in but most of the fun stuff taken out; if you've read those, you don't need to read this. If you've only read GEB, then read this instead of Le Ton Beau de Marot unless you have a particular interest in the art/skill of translation.This is merely a re-hash of Hofstadter's justly famous Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, with some ideas from Le Ton Beau de Marot thrown in but most of the fun stuff taken out; if you've read those, you don't need to read this. (Goedel, DH's guiding muse, is rightly lionized in this and other DH books; Russell -- standing in for Whitehead as well -- is all but judged a moron for failinAs reading experiences go, I'd rate this a 4-star book. What's not to like? Even the title reflects this. Easier to understand than Godel, Escher, Bach, especially if you read that one first.The parts I liked were great, were what literature is for, really.

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