Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid' by Douglas R. Hofstadter (1979)

The book is an exploration of the relationships between systems of thought, with mathematics, music and art as primary examples.

Hofstadter uses the characters of Kurt Gödel, M.C. Escher, and Johann Sebastian Bach to illustrate his points.

The main themes of the book include the idea of self-reference, emergence and recursion.

It looks at how self-reference and formal rules can be used to create a system that can generate an endless number of patterns and ideas.

It examines how these ideas can be used to explain how the human mind works and how intelligence can evolve.

It also explores the concept of computational irreducibility, which is the idea that some things in life can't be reduced down to a single simple answer.

Hofstadter explains how these concepts relate to the work of Gödel, Escher and Bach, as well as to the works of other thinkers.

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