From: Jim Andrews
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all that comes to mind to me (my friend, also) that's remotely relevant is
'godel escher bach'. the golly gee prose in it made it unreadable to me,
however. like trying to read mickey mouse.
ja
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There's also, perhaps a little less mickey mouse by the same author, Douglas
Hofstadter (and others): _Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer
Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought_ (1995).
And mibee some of the articles collected in his _Metamagical Themas_ --
nicely bite-sized and selfcontained pieces in this one!
Robin
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