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Douglas Hofstadter Books
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I Am a Strange Loop (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.95 — 8,568 ratings — published 2007
The Mind’s I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as douglas-hofstadter)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,943 ratings — published 1981
Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as douglas-hofstadter)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,672 ratings — published 1985
Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as douglas-hofstadter)
avg rating 3.99 — 608 ratings — published 1991
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as douglas-hofstadter)
avg rating 4.29 — 52,092 ratings — published 1979
Le Ton beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as douglas-hofstadter)
avg rating 4.24 — 829 ratings — published 1995
“{W}e can transfer the study of any formal system—in fact the study of ”
― Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
― Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
“[C]onsistency is not a property of a formal system per se, but depends on the interpretation which is proposed for it. By the same token, inconsistency is not an intrinsic property of any formal system.”
― Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
― Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
