- I Am a Strange Loop
Infobox Book
name = I Am A Strange Loop
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author =Douglas Hofstadter
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country = USA
language = English
series =
subject =Consciousness ,strange loop s,intelligence
publisher =Basic Books
release_date =March 26 th,2007
media_type = Hardback
pages = 412 pages
isbn = 978-0465030781
preceded_by =Gödel, Escher, Bach "I Am a Strange Loop" is a 2007 book by
Douglas Hofstadter , examining in depth the concept of a "strange loop " originally developed in his 1979 book "Gödel, Escher, Bach ".Hofstadter had previously expressed disappointment with how "Gödel, Escher, Bach" was received. In the preface to the twentieth-anniversary edition, Hofstadter laments that his book has been misperceived as a hodge-podge 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?" [cite book
last = Hofstadter
first = Douglas R.
authorlink = Douglas R. Hofstadter
title =Gödel, Escher, Bach
publisher = Basic Books
date = 1999
pages = P-2 (Twentieth-anniversary preface)
isbn = 0465026567 ]He sought to remedy this problem in "I Am a Strange Loop", by focusing on and expounding upon the central message of "Gödel, Escher, Bach". He seeks to demonstrate how the properties of
self-referential systems, demonstrated most famously inGödel's Incompleteness Theorem , can be used to describe the unique properties ofmind s. [ [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1599720,00.html The Year of Mathemagical Thinking] March 15, 2007] [ [http://www.megite.com/discover/hofstadter Hofstadter pages] at Megite/Discover]As an exploration of the concept of "self", Hofstadter explores his own life, and those he has been close to. [ [http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=C7265AEC-E7F2-99DF-3B3A60DE6200D457&chanID=sa006&colID=12 A New Journey into Hofstadter's Mind] - book review by George Johnson in "
Scientific American ", March 2007] cite web
url = http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.03/play.html?pg=3
title = Me, My Soul, and I
accessdate = 2007-12-10
month = March
year = 2007
work = Wired] [ [http://www.americanscientist.org/template/InterviewTypeDetail/assetid/54803 Author Interview] by Greg Ross, "American Scientist Online", March 22, 2007] [ [http://olimu.com/Journalism/2007/Texts/StrangeLoop.htm The I's Have It] - book review by John Derbyshire,The Wall Street Journal , March 23, 2007] [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/01/magazine/01wwlnQ4.t.html?_r=1&ref=magazine&oref=slogin The Mind Reader] New York Times Magazine, April 1, 2007] [cite journal
url = http://www.ams.org/notices/200707/tx070700852p.pdf
format = pdf
accessdate = 2007-12-10
journal = Notices of the American Mathematical Society
issue = 7
pages = 853
last = Gardner
first = Martin
authorlink = Martin Gardner
month = august
year = 2007
title = Do Loops Explain Consciousness? Review of "I Am a Strange Loop"
volume = 54]External links
* [http://tal.forum2.org/hofstadter_interview An interview with Douglas R. Hofstadter about "I am a Strange Loop".]
See also
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Autopoiesis
*Droste effect
*Euthyphro dilemma
* Feedback loop
* "Gödel, Escher, Bach "
* Identity, in particular, theShip of Theseus paradox
*Klein bottle
*Möbius strip
*Optical feedback
*Paradox
*Shepard tone
*Strange loop References
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