Oh joy, oh bliss! Doug Hofstadter has a new book out: I Am a Strange Loop. Consciousness as a self-referential phenomenon. I saw it quite by chance in a downtown bookshop, and seized it immediately. I am going to try to behave myself, and finish The Left Hand of Darkness* before I start looping….
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* I have to confess that I hadn’t read this wonderful work by Ursula Le Guin before now. Charlie badgered me into getting a copy (along with The Dispossessed), and I’m glad he did.