“Reality includes creating every real connection and reference.”

— Douglas Hofstadter, book Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid

Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid (1979)

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American professor of cognitive science 1945

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