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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
by Douglas R. Hofstadter
One of those books that left me so happy. The essential point - strange loops - (even though of course many people claim that the book doesn't have an essential point) wasn't difficult to grasp and, once understood, didn't seem particularly novel. What is astounding is Hofstadter's erudition, and his capacity to master this erudition to produce a book that speaks not just about consciousness and our concept of "I", but also in the process, that provides us with short masterclasses and novel thoughts on painting and etching, Bach's music, Pre-Socratic paradoxes, the history of Mathematics etc.