I Am a Strange Loop
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I Am a Strange Loop is a philosophical and cognitive science book by Douglas Hofstadter that explores the nature of self, consciousness, and recursion through the concept of self-referential “strange loops.”
All labels observed (1)
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| I Am a Strange Loop canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1924122 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: I Am a Strange Loop Context triple: [Douglas Hofstadter, notableWork, I Am a Strange Loop]
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A.
Conversations with Myself
Conversations with Myself is a collection of Nelson Mandela’s personal letters, diaries, and reflections that offers an intimate insight into his life, thoughts, and struggle against apartheid.
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B.
How to Create a Mind
"How to Create a Mind" is a nonfiction book by futurist Ray Kurzweil that explores the workings of human intelligence and proposes designs for advanced artificial intelligence based on the brain’s principles.
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C.
The Emotion Machine
The Emotion Machine is a 2006 book by artificial intelligence pioneer Marvin Minsky that explores how human thinking and emotions can be understood as computational processes of the mind.
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D.
Gödel, Escher, Bach
Gödel, Escher, Bach is a Pulitzer Prize–winning interdisciplinary book by Douglas Hofstadter that explores deep connections between mathematics, art, music, and human consciousness.
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E.
Society of Mind
Society of Mind is a seminal book by Marvin Minsky that proposes a theory of human intelligence as emerging from the interactions of many simple, non-intelligent agents within the mind.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: I Am a Strange Loop Target entity description: I Am a Strange Loop is a philosophical and cognitive science book by Douglas Hofstadter that explores the nature of self, consciousness, and recursion through the concept of self-referential “strange loops.”
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A.
Conversations with Myself
Conversations with Myself is a collection of Nelson Mandela’s personal letters, diaries, and reflections that offers an intimate insight into his life, thoughts, and struggle against apartheid.
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B.
How to Create a Mind
"How to Create a Mind" is a nonfiction book by futurist Ray Kurzweil that explores the workings of human intelligence and proposes designs for advanced artificial intelligence based on the brain’s principles.
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C.
The Emotion Machine
The Emotion Machine is a 2006 book by artificial intelligence pioneer Marvin Minsky that explores how human thinking and emotions can be understood as computational processes of the mind.
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D.
Gödel, Escher, Bach
Gödel, Escher, Bach is a Pulitzer Prize–winning interdisciplinary book by Douglas Hofstadter that explores deep connections between mathematics, art, music, and human consciousness.
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E.
Society of Mind
Society of Mind is a seminal book by Marvin Minsky that proposes a theory of human intelligence as emerging from the interactions of many simple, non-intelligent agents within the mind.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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| instanceOf |
book
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cognitive science book ⓘ non-fiction book ⓘ philosophy book ⓘ |
| author |
Douglas Hofstadter
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Douglas Hofstadter ⓘ
surface form:
Douglas R. Hofstadter
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| compares |
conscious and non-conscious systems
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human minds and animal minds ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| describes |
consciousness as an emergent property of self-reference
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self as a pattern in a system ⓘ |
| explores |
degrees of selfhood in different beings
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how meaning arises from formal systems ⓘ how symbols in the brain refer to the self ⓘ the continuity of identity over time ⓘ the relationship between brain and mind ⓘ |
| follows | Gödel, Escher, Bach ⓘ |
| genre |
cognitive science
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philosophical non-fiction ⓘ philosophy of mind ⓘ |
| hasPart |
discussion of Gödel’s incompleteness theorems
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discussion of feedback loops in cognition ⓘ discussion of self-referential systems ⓘ discussion of the nature of “I” ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
emergence
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levels of abstraction ⓘ self-referential paradoxes ⓘ symbolic representation in the brain ⓘ the illusion and reality of the self ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Gödel's incompleteness theorems
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surface form:
Gödel’s incompleteness theorems
Kurt Gödel ⓘ analytic philosophy of mind ⓘ cognitive science ⓘ formal logic ⓘ |
| isRelatedWork | Gödel, Escher, Bach ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Gödelian self-reference
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consciousness ⓘ identity ⓘ mind ⓘ philosophy of self ⓘ recursion ⓘ self ⓘ self-reference ⓘ soul ⓘ strange loop ⓘ |
| proposes | the self is a high-level strange loop ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2007 ⓘ |
| publisher | Basic Books ⓘ |
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Subject: I Am a Strange Loop Description of subject: I Am a Strange Loop is a philosophical and cognitive science book by Douglas Hofstadter that explores the nature of self, consciousness, and recursion through the concept of self-referential “strange loops.”
Referenced by (3)
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subject surface form:
Douglas Hofstadter