Chú thích Gödel,_Escher,_Bach

  1. Tiếng Anh của "Gödel, Escher, Bach: Dây Vàng Đời đời: Fuga ẩn dụ về trí óc và máy móc theo tinh thần của Lewis Carroll", nhưng lưu ý rằng Eternal Golden Braid cùng chữ đầu với Gödel, Escher, Bach.
  2. I realized that to me, Gödel and Escher and Bach were only shadows cast in different directions by some central solid essence. I tried to reconstruct the central object, and came up with this book.
  3. Do words and thoughts follow formal rules, or do they not?
  4. GEB is a very personal attempt to say how it is that animate beings can come out of inanimate matter. What is a self, and how can a self come out of stuff that is as selfless as a stone or a puddle?