I Am a Strange Loop

I Am a Strange Loop

Cover of the first edition
Author	Douglas Hofstadter
Language	English
Subject	Consciousness, strange loops, intelligence
Publisher	Basic Books
Publication date	March 26th, 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