Gödel, Escher, Bach
From kwharrison13.com · Anti-library
Gödel, Escher, Bach
| Full title | Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid |
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| Author | Douglas R. Hofstadter |
| Published | 1979 |
| Pages | 777 |
| Recommended | 3 times |
| Buy | Amazon |
| 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 heard about it
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Spotted at Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, Beaverton — July 2023 (Books photo album)
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A reply to @SpencrGreenberg — in the thread under his question “What non-fiction book taught you the most about how the world (or how humanity or society) really works?” (June 2025).
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Named in David Perell’s “every discipline has a book that everybody references, but nobody reads” thread on X (September 2020); — Every discipline has a book… (tweet).
Connections
- Every discipline has a book… (tweet) — recommended it.
- 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.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.