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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

Douglas R. Hofstadter

Follow strange loops from Bach's fugues and Escher's prints to Gödel's incompleteness theorem, programs that copy themselves, and how a mind and a self can arise from meaningless symbols.

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29 parts, about 47 minutes to read.

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Author
Douglas R. Hofstadter
Parts
29 parts
Reading time
about 47 minutes
The whole book
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What the summary covers

  1. A King's Theme and Strange Loops3 min
  2. Formal Systems and Meaning3 min
  3. When Symbols Change Their Meaning2 min
  4. Recursion and Bottoming Out1 min
  5. Where Meaning Lives2 min
  6. Logic Made Mechanical1 min
  7. Faith and a Formal Arithmetic3 min
  8. Zen Strings and Gödel's Code3 min
  9. Levels of Description1 min
  10. Mind as Software, Brain as Hardware1 min
  11. Aunt Hillary, the Talking Ant Colony2 min
  12. Neurons, Memories and Active Symbols2 min
  13. Mapping One Mind onto Another1 min
  14. A Symbol for the Self1 min
  15. Bounded and Free Loops2 min
  16. The Sentence That Denies Itself2 min
  17. Holes and Essential Incompleteness1 min
  18. Where Gödelizing Runs Out1 min
  19. Programs That Copy Themselves1 min
  20. DNA and the Central Dogmap2 min
  21. Formal Rules Beneath Thought1 min
  22. Levels, Truth and Machines1 min
  23. Programs That Seem to Understand2 min
  24. Slippage, Frames and Patterns2 min
  25. Shifts on Every Level1 min
  26. Ten Speculations About AI1 min
  27. The Level Nothing Can Touch1 min
  28. Gödel as Metaphor1 min
  29. Strange Loops Make a Self2 min

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