2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Winner

I Am a Strange Loop
Douglas R. Hofstadter
Can thought arise out of matter? Can self, soul, consciousness, “I” arise out of mere matter? If it cannot, then how can you or I be here? I Am a Strange Loop argues that the key to understanding selves and consciousness is the “strange loop”—a special kin…
2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Shortlist

Animal Architects: Building and the Evolution of Intelligence
James L. Gould, Carol Grant Gould

Faust in Copenhagen: A Struggle for the Soul of Physics
Gino Segrè

On Deep History and the Brain
Daniel Lord Smail
