![]() An alternate title (and key phrase in the book) Magister Ludi, puns on both “game” and “school,” and alludes to the importance of play and free association in the life of the mind. One might also describe the book as operating in the spirit - and the practice - of Herman Hesse’s Glass Bead Game, a novel Hesse wrote in response to the data-driven machinations of fascism and their threat to an intellectual tradition he held particularly dear. ![]() GEB attempted to reveal the mind at work the minds of extraordinary individuals, for sure, but also all human minds, which behave in similarly unfathomable ways. Its publisher settled on the pithy description, “a metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll.” The extraordinary work is not a treatise on mathematics, art, or music, but an essay on cognition through an exploration of all three - and of formal systems, recursion, self-reference, artificial intelligence, etc. Hofstadter won a Pulitzer Prize for Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, his first book, thenceforth (and henceforth) known as GEB. ![]() ![]() Bach walked into a book title, and you may well know the rest. In 1979, mathematician Kurt Gödel, artist M.C. ![]()
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