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Douglas R Hofstadter & Daniel C Dennett – The Minds I Brilliant, shattering, mind-jolting, The  Mind’s I is a searching, probing nook–a  cosmic journey of the mind–that goes deeply into  the problem of self and self-consciousness as  anything written in our time. From verbalizing  chimpanzees to scientific speculations involving  machines with souls, from the mesmerizing, maze-like  fiction of Borges to the tantalizing, dreamlike  fiction of Lem and Princess Ineffable, her circuits  glowing read and gold, The Mind’s I   opens the mind to the Black Box of fantasy, to the  windfalls of reflection, to new dimensions of  exciting possibilities.