A review by sevencrane
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter

4.0

Fun read, brought back the joy of poring over Escher lithographs as a kid. I liked the thesis of self-reflexivity as the key to complex behavior and thought it summed up the incompleteness theorem pretty well as "every sufficiently complex language has a way to say 'this statement is false.'" The only thing that dates it a bit is the speculation on AI in the last third, but I didn't really mind.