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- Stage: seed 🌱
- Type: book
- Topics: consciousness, mathematics, art
Douglas Hofstadter’s Pulitzer Prize-winning exploration of how self-reference and formal rules give rise to meaning, consciousness, and intelligence.
Book Summary
Through an intricate interweaving of the works of mathematician Kurt Godel, artist M.C. Escher, and composer J.S. Bach, Hofstadter explores the nature of minds, consciousness, and self-referential systems. The book examines how meaning emerges from apparently meaningless elements.
Notes
- Related to I Am A Strange Loop
- Explores consciousness through mathematics, art, and music