The Book Prize Index

I Am a Strange Loop

Douglas Hofstadter

Argues that the key to understanding ourselves and consciousness is the "strange loop," a special kind of abstract feedback loop that inhabits the brain.

ScienceScience · medium confidenceScience81 signalsLlm Classifier: Science -> ScienceOpen Library: Identity (psychology) -> Medicine & Public HealthAward Category: Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology -> ScienceScience & DiscoveryTechnology, Computing & AI

Award History

1 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and TechnologyMajor2007WinnerSecondary source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    Understanding ourselves and consciousness depends on the “strange loop,” an abstract feedback loop that inhabits the brain.

    Model confidence 62%

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    35 / 100 academic

    Serious trade

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 66%.