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Ideas
A book by Douglas Hofstadter, described by the author as "a metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll."

I'd (Scott) like to invite Douglas Hofstadter into a virtual world to give a talk and facilitate a discussion of Goedel, Escher, Bach, perhaps as an inaugural event.

Publish my article in a WUaS academic journal in this subject
Open Journal Systems. 2012. Open Journal Systems. Public Knowledge Project.

Select Book Groups, Study Groups, Musical Groups, etc.
Gödel, Escher, Bach, Tumblr online book group. 2010. Gödel, Escher, Bach, Tumblr online book group. (Gödel, Escher, Bach, Tumblr is an online book group. We're reading one chapter a week of Douglas Hofstadter’s 1979 masterpiece book about artificial intelligence, mathematics, consciousness, puzzles, music, and language).

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Select Books
Bach, J.S. n.d. Editions - Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier (BWV 846-893), BV B 25 (Busoni, Ferruccio). Composer's Manuscript. Performer's Edition (US users) — Petrucci-Merton (non-US users)

Godel, Kurt. 1986. Collected Works: Volume I: Publications 1929-1936 (Collected Works of Kurt Godel). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Hofstadter, Douglas R. 1999 [1979]. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. New York, NY: Basic Books.

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Select Programs, Applications, Software
Copycat (software). 2012. Copycat (software). (Copycat project, a computer program that makes analogies). Wikipedia.

Select Questions, Inquiries, Problems
Why, how, and in what ways, is J.S. Bach's music particularly enjoyable, per Hofstadter?

Why, how, and in what ways, is J.S. Bach's music particularly enjoyable?

Select References
Dasgupta, Probal. 2013. Goedel aar Goddo (in Bangla: 'Goedel and Prose'). (In Bengali language / Bangla language). Calcutta, India: academia.edu/5073604/Goedel_aar_Goddo_in_Bangla_Goedel_and_Prose_. (Is this the same Goedel?).

Hofstadter, Douglas. 2007. Excerpts from Hofstadter’s Writings. Stanford, CA: Stanford University.

Hofstadter, Douglas. 2007. Douglas R. Hofstadter: Analogy as Core, Core as Analogy. Stanford, CA: Stanford University.

Select Video and Audio
Scottb179. 2007. Gödel, Escher, Bach - Lecture 1: Part 1 of 7. Cambridge, MA: MIT

Select Websites
Mårten's GEB Page. 2010. Mårten's GEB Page. ("Here I keep some links related to the book Gödel, Escher, Bach - an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter").

Speer, Robert. 2007. Gödel, Escher, Bach - Related Resources. Cambridge, MA: MIT Open Course Ware.

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