Gödel Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

This book reads like an intellectual Grand Tour of hacker preoccupations. Music, mathematical logic, programming, speculations on the nature of intelligence, biology, and Zen are woven into a brilliant tapestry themed on the concept of encoded self-reference. The perfect left-brain companion to Illuminatus.

This book has been mentioned in the following pages of the Jargon File: Bibliography.

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The crunchly saga

The infamous Crunchly cartoons by The Great Quux are woven into the lexicon, each next to an appropriate entry. To read them in the sequence in which they were written, chase pointers from here using the ‘next cartoon’ information in the captions.

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Gödel Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

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The crunchly saga