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Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
by Douglas R. Hofstadter
GEB is an exploration into how intelligence and self awareness might manifest given the right underlying structure. The journey is broken up by wonderful dialogs modeled after musical fugues in which the concepts of the succeeding chapter are introduced. It contains playful use of words and ideas that get the mind churning in unusual ways. Some parts were difficult to get through such as Typographical Number Theory and the formation of Godel's Incompleteness Theorem using TNT. The books covers a range of topics including: formal systems, recursion, self-reference, self-representation, artificial intelligence, molecular biology, language, computer systems and Zen. It contains influences from many personalities including: Bach, Turing, Godel, Babbage, Escher and many others.