Gödel, Escher, Bach 💫

 

A book to be read all the life, a life-changing book: Gödel, Escher, Bach!

 Written in 1979 by cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter, this philosophical volume suggests ways of reconciling the software of the mind with the hardware of brain. It won the Pulitzer Prize.

The book investigates how meaning and rules are encoded in symbols, how systems represent information, and how patterns repeat across music, art, and mathematics.

While arguing for a physical basis for thoughts, feelings and emotions, Hofstadter dismisses metaphysical aspects to consciousness. Almost forty years later, it seems that consciousness creates all material reality, not the other way around. 

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