Editing Gödel, Escher, Bach (section)

=== ''I Am a Strange Loop'' ===
{{Main article|I Am a Strange Loop}}
Hofstadter has expressed some frustration with how ''Gödel, Escher, Bach'' was received. He felt that readers did not fully grasp that [[Strange loop|strange loops]] were supposed to be the central theme of the book, and attributed this confusion to the length of the book and the breadth of the topics covered.<ref>{{cite book |last=Hofstadter |first=Douglas R. |title=Gödel, Escher, Bach |url=https://archive.org/details/gdelescherbachet00hofs |publisher=Basic Books |year=1999 |isbn=0-465-02656-7 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/gdelescherbachet00hofs/page/n7 P–1-23 (Twentieth-anniversary preface)] |author-link=Douglas R. Hofstadter |url-access=registration}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Boden |first=Margaret |date=2017-02-06 |title=Self Assembly |url=https://www.americanscientist.org/article/self-assembly |access-date=2023-07-15 |website=American Scientist |language=en}}</ref>

To remedy this issue, Hofstadter published ''I Am a Strange Loop'' in 2007, which had a more focused discussion of the idea.<ref name=":0" />