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The book is a product of grief, not greed.

Huh, are you the famous philosopher John Searle?

Who created a HN account just to to smack talk Hofstadter? That seems likely.

Or a successful attempt at humour.

BTW, I really liked "The Mind's I" (coauthored with Daniel Dennet).

Gardner calls Searle "the scoundrel of Hofstadter’s book." He is now also the scoundrel of this thread.

What a strange loop indeed

On that note, I second your ringing endorsement of GEB, and if you haven't read it yet, you should run out and buy a copy. ;)