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Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid

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'What is a self and how can a self come out of inanimate matter?' This is the riddle that drove Douglas Hofstadter to write this extraordinary book. In order to impart his original and personal view on the core mystery of human existence - our intangible sensation of 'I'-ness - Hofstadter defines the playful yet seemingly paradoxical notion of 'strange loop', and explicates this idea using analogies from many disciplines.

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Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas R. Hofstadter

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English
Publisher
Penguin Books
Released
2000
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Paperback
Pages
824
ISBN10
0140289208
ISBN13
9780140289206
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1979
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
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'What is a self and how can a self come out of inanimate matter?' This is the riddle that drove Douglas Hofstadter to write this extraordinary book. In order to impart his original and personal view on the core mystery of human existence - our intangible sensation of 'I'-ness - Hofstadter defines the playful yet seemingly paradoxical notion of 'strange loop', and explicates this idea using analogies from many disciplines.