Strange Loop Wrap Up

The book was disappointing because he couldn't explain what he thought a "Strange Loop" was.  His example from Gödel sounds like a confusion of levels of abstraction.

Other western scientists have done much better work on this problem. Some of them, such as António Rosa Damásio have publications preceding the date of Douglas Richard Hofstadter book, Strange Loop.  Why write something that is not current?

Most of the ideas Douglas Richard Hofstadter presents were well covered by Aristotle, so why re-hash them now?

I'm done with Douglas Richard Hofstadter.