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by Douglas R. Hofstadter

Hofstadter--who won a Pulitzer for his 1979 book, "Gdel, Escher, Bach"--blends a surprising array of disciplines and styles in his continuing rumination on the nature of consciousness.


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One of our greatest philosophers and scientists of the mind asks, where does the self come from -- and how our selves can exist in the minds of others. Can thought arise out of matter? Can self, soul, consciousness, I arise out of mere matter? If it cannot, then how can you or I be here? I Am a Strange Loop argues that the key to understanding selves and consciousness is the strange loop-a special kind of abstract feedback loop inhabiting our brains. The most central and complex symbol in your brain is the one called I. The I is the nexus in our brain, one of many symbols seeming to have free will and to have gained the paradoxical ability to push particles around, rather than the reverse. How can a mysterious abstraction be real-or is our I merely a convenient fiction? Does an I exert genuine power over the particles in our brain, or is it helplessly pushed around by the laws of physics? These are the mysteries tackled in I Am a Strange Loop, Douglas Hofstadter's first book-length journey into philosophy since Gdel, Escher, Bach. Compulsively readable and endlessly thought-provoking, this is a moving and profound inquiry into the nature of mind.

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  • Title I Am a Strange Loop
  • Author Douglas R. Hofstadter
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 436
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Basic Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 2008-07-08
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780465030798 / 0465030793
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.08 x 6.19 x 1.14 in (23.06 x 15.72 x 2.90 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Identity (Psychology), Consciousness
  • Dewey Decimal Code 153

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Douglas Hofstadter is College of Arts and Sciences Professor of Cognitive Science and Computer Science at Indiana University, Bloomington. His other books include the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gdel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid; Metamagical Themas; The Mind's I; Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies; Le Ton beau de Marot; and Surfaces and Essences, with Emmanuel Sander. He lives in Bloomington, Indiana.
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