I Am a Strange Loop - Douglas Hofstadter  ## Metadata - Author: **Douglas Hofstadter** - Full Title: I Am a Strange Loop - Category: #books ## Highlights - By definition, a strange loop is a “level-crossing feedback loop” (Location 46) - There is not a single reference to a serious laboratory experiment, and Hofstadter even claims that the physical structure of the brain is as irrelevant in the explanation of consciousness as the chemical composition of molecules in the air would be to the sensation of music. He thus makes no effort whatsoever to show how the brain is able to sustain his strange loop; (Location 65) - Shadows of the Mind (Vintage, 1995), also heavily relies on Gödel’s work, it hardly overlaps with I Am a Strange Loop. (Location 72)