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

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., p. 260.

4 Charles Babbage, Passagesfrom the Life of a

Philosopher, pp. 145-6.

Memoir "Sketch of the Analytical Engine In-

vented by Charles Babbage", by L. F.

Menabrea (Geneva, 1842), reprinted in P.

and E. Morrison, Charles Babbage and His Cal-

culnting Engines, pp. 248-9, 284.

5 Lady A. A. Lovelace, Notes upon the

6 David and Mendel, pp. 255-6.

, Ibid., p. 40.

Two-Part Invention

I Lewis Carroll, "What the Tortoise Said to Achilles", Mind, n.s., 4 (1895), pp. 278-80.

Chapter IV: Consistency, Completeness, and Geometry

I Herbert Meschkowski, Non-Euclidean

Geometry, pp. 31-2.

2 Ibid., p. 33.

Chapter VI: The Location of Meaning

I George Steiner, After Babel, pp. 172-3. Ideas, pp. 87-8.

2 Leonard B. Meyer, Music, The Arts, and

Chapter VII: The Propositional Calculus

I Gyomay M. Kubose, Zen Koans, p. 178. Entailment (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Uni-

2 Ibid., p. 178. versity Press, 1975).

3 A. R. Anderson and N. D. Belnap, Jr.

A Mu Offering

I All genuine k6ans in this Dialogue are and Gyomay M. Kubose, Zen Koans.

taken from Paul Reps, Zen Flesh, Zen Bones

Chapter IX: Mumon and Godel

I Paul Reps, Zen Flesh, Zen Bones, pp. 110- , Reps, p. 121.

II.

2 Ibid., p. 119.

H Gyomay M. Kubose, Zen Koans, p. 35.

• Zen Buddhilm, p. 31.
  3 Ibid., pp. 111-12.
  4 Zen Buddhism (Mount Vernon, N.Y.:
  Peter Pauper Press, 1959), p. 22.


• Reps, p. 124.
  6 Zen Buddhism, p. 38.

10 Kubose, p. 110.

11 Ibid., p. 120.

12 Ibid., p. 180.

13 Reps, pp. 89-90.

Chapter XI: Brains and Thoughts
I Carl Sagan, ed. Communication with Ex-
traterrestrial Intelligence, p. 78.
2 Steven Rose, The Conscious Brain, pp.

Notes

251-2.

3 E. O. Wilson, The Insect Societie.l, p. 226.

4 Dean Woold"idge, Mechanical Man, p. 70.

743