Kyle Harrison
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Gödel, Escher, Bach
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
- Author
- Douglas R. Hofstadter
- Published
- 1979
- Pages
- 777
- Recommended
- Once
Why it’s on the list: Hofstadter’s braid of incompleteness, recursive art and fugue, working toward how a self could arise out of formal rules that know nothing about selves.
Where I saw it: A reply to @SpencrGreenberg’s question on X, June 5, 2025 — “What non-fiction book taught you the most about how the world (or how humanity or society) really works?” — recovered from that thread and saved to Kyle’s Apple Note “Books To Read”. Thread: https://x.com/spencrgreenberg/status/1930639380424577198
Connections
- A question for you — What non-fiction… (tweet) — the saved thread this recommendation came from.
- Artificial Intelligence · Complexity · Systems Thinking · Psychology — where this sits in the corpus.