Talk:Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid

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 * I realized that to me, Gödel and Escher and Bach were only shadows cast in different directions by some central solid essence. I tried to reconstruct the central object, and came up with this book.
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 * Do words and thoughts follow formal rules, or do they not?
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 * GEB is a very personal attempt to say how it is that animate beings can come out of inanimate matter. What is a self, and how can a self come out of stuff that is as selfless as a stone or a puddle?
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