my mind on books

In I Am a Strange Loop, Douglas Hofstadter doesn’t use the term tangled hierarchy but possibly it was in Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid– at least Wikipedia associates the two terms by making tangled hierarchy refer to strange loop.

I had written down this quote a few years ago from Amit Goswami, The Self-Aware Universe:

The self of our self-reference is due to a tangled hierarchy, but our consciousness is the consciousness of the Being that is beyond the subject-object split. There is no other source of consciousness in the universe. The self of self-reference and the consciousness of the original consciousness, together, make what we call self-consciousness. (p. 188)

So Goswami, unlike Hofstadter, distinguishes between consciousness and the self.