jll29
It's a poem published in 1979 by the son of a physics Nobel prize winner
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Douglas Hofstadter
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Douglas Hofstadter
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ggm
Gödel, Escher, Bach, an Eternal Golden Braid (Douglas Hofstadter, 1979)
taylodl
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid (Hofstadter)
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patal
"Gödel, Escher, Bach" by Douglas Hofstaedter.
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troupe
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Hofstadter
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raminf
Gödel, Escher, Bach
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tiffanyg
Gödel, Escher, Bach (already mentioned by another I see)
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philipov
"Goedel, Escher, Bach"
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danschuller
GEB isn't much to do with philosophy at all, it's more focused on computing and touches on philosophy where that seems relevant.
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thorin
this was the only book I had with me
glonq
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid was great for both enlightening me as well as utterly confusing me
mindcrime
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter
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Godel, Escher, Bach (Douglas Hofstadter)
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hbogert
an "eternal golden braid"
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mdp2021
Gödel, Escher, Bach is an artistic appetizer over the stimulating world of structures, - not a manual.
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nonrandomstring
Hofstadter: Godel Escher Bach
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arisbe__
& Godel, Escher, Bach.
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kleer001
Another vote for G.E.B.
azalemeth
I read Gödel Escher Bach, an Eternal Golden Braid on Minds and Machines in the Spirit of Lewis Carol, by Douglas R Hofstader.
etherio
I also want to read Godel, Escher Bach, it's been recommended to me a lot.
jefallbright
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter. Brilliant synthesis of thoughts on logic, reasoning, programming, artificial intelligence
abnry
Godel Escher Bach is a good place to start.
pvitz
I read it when I was 16 and it was just wonderful. I can also recommend it.
dTal
Godel, Escher, Bach. That belongs on everyone's bookshelf.
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mike00632
I think "Gödel, Escher, Bach" is the perfect book.
coeneedell
I'd recommend Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofsteader.
goldenshale
Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter: create a new mathematics from the axioms up, while strolling along with a wise tortoise and a hare who share fascinating ideas and connections from art and music to number theory, incompleteness, and consciousness.
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arantius
I'd suggest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach .
kabdib
Douglas Hofstadter's Godel, Escher, Bach
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yuribro
"Gödel, Escher, Bach" by Douglas Hofstadter
inventtheday
Godel Escher Bach by Hofstadter. I was never even close to the same afterwards.
pjmorris
'Godel, Escher, Bach' gets most of the attention
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bobosha
GEB is one of those books ...