# Gödel, Escher, Bach **Domain:** Cognitive Science / Mathematics / Self-Reference **Doc Type:** Book Node **Maturity:** Evolving **Related:** [[Douglas Hofstadter]], [[Kurt Gödel]], [[Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems]], [[Strange Loops]], [[The Mind's I]], [[Recursive Self-Model]], [[Consciousness]] --- ## Definition _Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid_ is Douglas Hofstadter's 1979 book using formal systems, music and art to examine self-reference and emergent mind. ## Corpus Context The book supplies a vocabulary of strange loops for understanding how a self-model can arise from levels that do not individually contain a self. It therefore interfaces with [[Reconstructed Person]] and [[Recursive Self-Correction]]. The book's Gödelian layer should be distinguished from [[Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems]] themselves. Hofstadter extends self-reference into cognition and identity through [[Strange Loops|strange loops]]; that extension is conceptually powerful but is not an additional mathematical theorem. ## Relationships [[Douglas Hofstadter]], [[Kurt Gödel]], [[Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems]], [[Strange Loops]], [[The Mind's I]], [[Recursive Self-Model]], [[Consciousness]], [[wiki/Bauhaus Architects of AI|Bauhaus Architects of AI]] ## Sources / Provenance - [[articles/Beyond the Sea|Beyond the Sea]]