Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
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ISBN: 9780140289206
Penguin Books Ltd, 30 March 2000
Paperback, 824 pages
“What is a self, and how can a self come out of inanimate matter?” This is the riddle that drove Hofstadter to write this extraordinary book. Linking together the music of J.S. Bach, the graphic art of Escher, and the mathematical theorems of Gödel, as well as ideas drawn from logic, biology, psychology, physics, and linguistics, Douglas Hofstadter illuminates one of the greatest mysteries of modern science: the nature of human thought processes.