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Gödel, Escher, Bach

by Douglas Hofstadter

  • FINISHED
  • Finished June 2026
  • First published 1979

cognitive science philosophy artificial intelligence

Hofstadter links Gödel’s theorems, Escher’s drawings and Bach’s music through self-reference.   He asks how a mind might come from symbols.