Gödel, Escher, Bach: an eternal golden braid

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Interesting Triad and an incredibly Complex Book

Book Review

LLMs and self-referentiality

I woke up yesterday with the following thoughts, which are probably either obvious or dumb. A central thesis that many readers, including me, took from Douglas Hofstadter’s Gödel Escher Bach when y…

Write You a Haskell ( Stephen Diehl )

Complete Works (1977–2024) — Hirsch Argument Atlas

This atlas maps the complete argument of E.D. Hirsch Jr. across 10 books spanning 1977 to 2024. Every claim is extracted, every piece of evidence tracked, and every counter-argument surfaced. A separate layer of external scholarly research provides independent context.

Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek

Terence Tao – Kepler, Newton, and the true nature of mathematical discovery

“And what those stories teach us about how AI will revolutionize math”

The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Obsession

Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. They’ve been a road map for the billionaire ever since.

Iconic Math

As an introduction to a forthcoming book (late 2025), this page links to three narrated videos about unary boundary logic:

Notes for a Theory | Alberto Garutti

William Blake: the scourge of the tyrants

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By Devine Lu Linvega

I am a strange loop

Hofstadter's long-awaited return to the themes of Gödel, Escher, Bach--an original and controversial view of the nature of consciousness and identity. What do we mean when we say "I"? Can a self, a soul, a consciousness, an "I" arise out of mere matter? If it cannot, then how can you or I be here? This book argues that the key to understanding selves and consciousness is a special kind of abstract feedback loop inhabiting our brains. Deep down, a human brain is a chaotic soup of particles, on a higher level it is a jungle of neurons, and on a yet higher level it is a network of abstractions that we call "symbols." The most central and complex symbol in your brain or mine is the one we both call "I." But how can such a mysterious abstraction be real--or is our "I" merely a convenient fiction?--From publisher description

From Bacteria to Bach and Back

'A supremely enjoyable, intoxicating work.' &#8212;<em>Nature</em>, From Bacteria to Bach and Back, The Evolution of Minds, Daniel C Dennett, 9780393355505

How to be inspired without copying

In 1713, Johann Sebastian Bach sat down at his desk in Weimar and began copying out concertos by Antonio Vivaldi. He transcribed them note for note, in his own hand, working through at least nine of the L'estro armonico concertos like a medical student dissecting a cadaver. The work was

A heartbreaking work of staggering genius

A book that redefines both family and narrative for the…