I am a Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter isn’t GEB II, as the author ably explains in the preface. While GEB touched on many topics that apply to Hofstadter’s perspective on intelligence and illustrated those topics with Dialogues, this book has tighter focus on consciousness and strange loops. It has a couple Dialogues, much fewer visuals, and mostly photographs in place of artwork (with some great color pictures in the middle). Escher and Bach have fewer appearances. But Gödel and his Theorem
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