# Gödel, Escher, Bach **Domain:** Cognitive Science / Mathematics / Self-Reference **Doc Type:** Book Node **Maturity:** Evolving **Related:** [[Douglas Hofstadter]], [[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]]. ## Relationships [[Douglas Hofstadter]], [[The Mind's I]], [[Recursive Self-Model]], [[Consciousness]] ## Sources / Provenance - [[articles/Beyond the Sea|Beyond the Sea]]