I am a strange loop

Where is the personality born? And how can our personalities exist in someone else"s consciousness? Is the thought material? Are the personality, soul, consciousness, “I” material? If not, how can we be here? Douglas Hofstadter claims that the key to understanding the personality is “strange loop”, an abstract closed essence of a special kind contained
in the brain. The main and most difficult symbol is “I”. This link is one of many symbols that, it seems, is endowed with free will and gained a paradoxical ability to direct particles in the brain. So how can mysterious abstraction be real? Or I - a shameful fiction? Does the “I” have power over other particles or obediently echoes the laws of physics? The author beats over these riddles, for the first time after his Magnum Opus, he made an original philosophical investigation of the essence of the human mind