Gödel, Escher, Bach An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter

Author: To be sure. My Crab Canon employs verbal retrogression, and my Sloth Canon employs verbal versions of both inversion and ...

In any event, I find indirect self-reference a more general concept, and far more stimulating, than direct self-reference. Moreo ...

Crab: Quite Godelian. Tell me-does your Six-Part Ricercar Dialogue at- tempt to copy in form the Ba(h piece it's based on? Autho ...

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unlikely threesome, at first thought. My favorite artist, Mr. T's favorite composer, and- Crab: My favorite logician! Tortoise: ...

Notes Introduction: A Musko-Logical Offering I H. T. David and A. Mendel, The Bach Reader, pp. 305-6. 2 Ibid., p. 179. 3 Ibid., ...

English Frenlh German Suite 1 Lewis Carroll, The Annotated Alice (Alice's AdventureJ in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Gla.l ...

Chapter XVIII: Artificial Intelligence: Retrospects 1 Alan M. Turing, "Computing Machinery and Intelligence", Mind, Vol. LlX, No ...

Bibliography The presence of two asterisks indicates that the book or article was a prime motivator of my book. The presence of ...

Boden, Margaret. Artificial Intelligence and Natural Man. New York: Basic Books, The best book I have ever seen on nearly all ...

Doblhofer, Ernst. Voices in Stone. New York: Macmillan, Collier Books, 1961. Paper- back. A good book on the decipherment of anc ...

wandter Systeme, I." Monatshefte fur Mathematik und Physik, 38 (1931), 173-198. Godel's 1931 paper. * Goffman, Erving. Frame Ana ...

Hofstadter, Douglas R. "Energy levels and wave functions of Bloch electrons in rational and irrational magnetIc fields". Physica ...

Koestler, Arthur. The Act of Creation. New York: Dell, 1966. Paperback. A wide-ranging and generally stimulating theory about ho ...

M~yer, lean. "~ssai d'appl!cati~~n de certain~ modeles cybernetiques a la coordina- tIon chez les 1I1sectes SOCIaux. Insectes So ...

Ranganathan, S. R. Ramanujan, The Man and the Mathematician. London: Asia Pub- lishing House, 1967. An occult-oriented biography ...

entitled "The Architecture of Complexity", discusses problems of reductionisrri versus holism somewhat. Smart,J.J. C. "Godel's T ...

Trakhtenbrot, V. Algorithms and Computing Machines. Heath. Paperback. A discussion of theoretical issues involving computers, pa ...

---, ed. The Psychology of Computer Vision. New York: McGraw-Hili, 1975. Silly title, but fine book. It contains articles on ho ...

Credits Fi~res: Fig. 1, Johann Sebastian Bach by Elias Gottlieb-Haussmann (1748), collection of WIlliam H. Scheide, Princeton, N ...