By Douglas Hofstadter.
Hofstader has deep ideas about how the mind works. I think I get his idea about strange loops and their profound consequences. Someone really needs to explore this technically though as this book is too philosophical to be considered science.
He is a great writer, always able to explain a difficult idea with a interesting series of metaphors.
About two thirds of the way though the book, he discusses his wife's death, and if it's possible that part of the strange loop that makes up her identity, will go on living in his head. Or, is he just finding a way to keep her memory alive.
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