wew, finished! this is the second time i have listened to "I Am a Strange Loop." i think the book is a very good book about consciousness and i largely agree with Hofstadter's perspective that consciousness is an emergent sort of illusion. The main thing I don't like about the book is just how long it is.

I always try to keep in mind books that I consider to be introductory that would push someone to become more "like me", and "I Am a Strange Loop" is definitely one of those. It wouldn't be the first one I would recommend, but it would definitely be a recommendation. The recommendations would probably be:

• Alan Watts' "The Book"
• Stafford Beer's "Designing Freedom"
• Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela's "The Tree of Knowledge"
• Douglas Hofstadter's "I Am a Strange Loop"