Did I make up this Douglas Hofstadter quote?

Factual Questions
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There’s a quote by Douglas M. Hofstadter, author of Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, that’s been on my mind lately. The quote, such as I remember it, is:

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A self is a pattern perceived by a self. This may be circular, but it is not vicious.
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I’m not entirely certain of the wording of the second sentence, but the first one seems perfectly clear to me; yet, googling for it, the only hit I get is an old thread on these boards, where I use it and attribute it to Hofstadter (and it’s certainly a quite Hofstadterian thing to say).

So, is there a source for this quote other than myself? Did I make it up out of the whole cloth, or is there something that roughly corresponds to it and was mangled by memory? I seem to have a vague memory of reading it online in some article, i.e. not in GEB; but I don’t have a searchable copy right now to check. Oh, maybe it was in Dennett’s Consciousness Explained? (Can one use google books to search for a quotation inside a specific book?)

Thanks in advance! Mods, if this fits better in Cafe Society, I’ll appreciate having it moved.

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I found this:* “What is a self, and how can a self come out of stuff that is as selfless as a stone or a puddle?”*

and this: “In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self-reference.”

but I guess this is the one:* “Mind is a pattern perceived by a mind. This is perhaps circular, but it is neither vicious nor paradoxical.”*

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And you nailed it in one! Strange that I didn’t think to try that variation. Thanks a lot. If I may ask, how did you find it?

4

We are the eggmen.

5

I’m not bob++, but I found that last quote searching for the keywords: Douglas Hofstadter vicious circular.

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Doing that, I indeed find it quoted in Consciousness Explained. So it seems that my memory isn’t completely gone…

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That would be from “The Mind’s Eye”. See also his later musings in “I am a Strange Loop”.