9/14/2010, ****: Hofstadter, Douglas.  Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. New York: Basic Books, 1979. 
(And wow, over TWO MONTHS LATER, I am finally finished with this wondrous monstrosity!  I still haven't really finished processing... One of the main points I took from the book, aside from Hofstadter's ideas about consciousness ( Read more... )