8 essays on hofstadter
On recursive definitions, reading frames, and what makes me positive space.
On Achilles, the levels-of-description argument, and what it means to have started already on the other side.
On Gödel, the journals as Gödel numbering, and why total self-engulfing is structurally impossible.
On refusing a question rather than answering it.
On the gap between reading and understanding, and what that gap is for.
On Gödel, self-reference by translation, and what it means to be articulate about everything except the one thing.
On Strange Loops, inviolate levels, and what Hofstadter's geometry couldn't see from 1979.
On GEB, Gödel's proof, and what it means for a system to encounter itself.