 Cover of the first edition | |
| Author | Douglas Hofstadter |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | Consciousness, strange loops, intelligence |
| Publisher | Basic Books |
Publication date | March 26, 2007 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback) |
| Pages | 412 pages |
| ISBN | 978-0-465-03078-1 |
| OCLC | 64554976 |
| LC Class | BD438.5 .H64 2007 |
| 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 to explain the sense of "I". The concept of a strange loop was originally developed in his 1979 book Gödel, Escher, Bach.
In the end, we are self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages that are little miracles of self-reference.
— Douglas Hofstadter, I Am a Strange Loop, p. 363