Hofstadter doesn't list attention in the index of his book "I Am a Strange Loop." He doesn't discuss attention in the book so I wouldn't expect to find it in the index. But it seems strange that an investigation into what is meant by "I" would leave out attention. It is as if the entire issue of the book is an academic examination of ideas ignoring the process and effort of bringing these ideas to awareness. I suppose a computer scientist has to look at it this way because his computers run by predefined programs i.e. recorded ideas. If Hofstadter were to move beyond the domain of recorded ideas he wouldn't be a computer scientist then? Yet he includes his chapter "On Magnanimity and Friendship."
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