Godel, Escher, Bach : An Eternal Golden Braid Condition:Very Good He hatched a plan to

He hatched a plan to swap places with a Jewish inmate and smuggled himself into his sector of the camp

With stunningly resonant prose

and a doctor who wants to become a box man himself

It is a powerful evocation of how the external and internal aspects of our lives exist in a helix

using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure

Godel, Escher, Bach : An Eternal Golden Braid Condition:Very Good He hatched a plan toDouglas Hofstadter's book is concerned directly with the nature of maps or links between formal systems. However, according to Hofstadter, the formal system that underlies all mental activity transcends the system that supports it. If life can grow out of the formal chemical substrate of the cell, if consciousness can emerge out of a formal system of firing neurons, then so too will computers attain human intelligence. Gdel, Escher, Bach is a