HOBOKEN, JUNE 21, 2025.  Did Douglas Hofstadter discover the strange loop? Or did he create it? Either way, the strange loop, which Hofstadter propounds in Gödel, Escher, Bach and I Am a Strange Loop, may be the deepest idea I’ve met. It fascinates me, as does Hofstadter. In 2016 I spent a day with him at his home in Bloomington, Indiana, after which I profiled him in my book Mind-Body Problems. Earlier this month, I saw Hofstadter again at an event in NYC where he got an award (given to him by ...