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Gödel, Escher, Bach : an eternal golden braid / Douglas R. Hofstadter

This Pulitzer Prize-winning work explores the links between formal systems in mathematics, art, and music to examine the nature of human consciousness. It analyses how intelligence and meaning emerge from recursion and self-reference within cognitive science.

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