dmiller's New Writeupshttp://everything2.com/?node=New%20Writeups%20Atom%20Feed&foruser=dmiller1999-11-13T08:45:23ZGödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (thing)http://everything2.com/user/dmiller/writeups/G%25C3%25B6del%252C+Escher%252C+Bach%253A+An+Eternal+Golden+Braiddmillerhttp://everything2.com/user/dmiller1999-11-13T08:45:23Z1999-11-13T08:45:23ZBrilliant (<a href="/title/Pulitzer+Prize">Pulitzer Prize</a> winning) literary construction by <a href="/title/artificial+intelligence">artificial intelligence</a> researcher <a href="/title/Douglas+Hofstadter">Douglas Hofstadter</a>.
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The book deals with <a href="/title/consciousness">consciousness</a> and its ability to <a href="/title/cross+boundaries+of+category+and+meaning">cross boundaries of category and meaning</a>. The author relates this to the music of <a href="/title/Bach">Bach</a>, the
mind-warping illustrations of <a href="/title/Escher">Escher</a> and the totally freaked out <a href="/title/Godel%2527s+theorem">Godel's theorem</a> - all of which
exhibit the same property.
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