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''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''. Hofstadter had previously expressed disappointment with how ''Gödel, Escher, Bach,'' which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1980 for general nonfiction, was received. In the preface to its 20th-anniversary edition, Hofstadter laments that the book was perceived as a hodgepodge 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?" Hofstadter seeks to remedy this problem in ''I Am a Strange Loop'' by focusing and expounding on the central message of ''Gödel, Escher, Bach''. He demonstrates how the properties of self-referential systems, demonstrated most famously in Gödel's incompleteness theorems, can be used to describe the unique properties of minds.〔(An Interview with Douglas R. Hofstadter, following ''I am a Strange Loop'' ), by Tal Cohen, ''Tal Cohen's Bookshelf'', June 11, 2008〕 As an exploration of the sense of "I", Hofstadter explores his own life, and those to whom he has been close.〔(A New Journey into Hofstadter's Mind ) - book review by George Johnson in ''Scientific American'', March 2007〕〔(Author Interview ) by Greg Ross, ''American Scientist Online'', March 22, 2007〕〔(The I's Have It ) - book review by John Derbyshire, The Wall Street Journal, March 23, 2007〕〔(The Mind Reader ) New York Times Magazine, April 1, 2007〕 == See also == * Feedback loop * Identity: in particular, the Ship of Theseus paradox * Klein bottle * Möbius strip * Russell's paradox 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「I Am a Strange Loop」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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