{"id":227925,"date":"2025-12-27T18:04:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T00:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/godel-escher-bach-minds-machines-and-math"},"modified":"2025-12-27T18:04:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T00:04:04","slug":"godel-escher-bach-minds-machines-and-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/godel-escher-bach-minds-machines-and-math","title":{"rendered":"\u201cG\u00f6del, Escher, Bach\u201d: Minds, Machines, And Math"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Tv4lbq3VrlA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>NOTE: Some folks have mentioned my pronunciation of G\u00f6del is wrong, I do apologize for that.<\/p>\n<p>Any author mulling artificial intelligence as a story element owes it to themselves to encounter this spellbinding, one-of-a-kind book. You also deserve to sit down with it if you\u2019re curious about any number of other SF&amp;F-adjacent topics: mathematics, pattern recognition, the definition of consciousness, the concepts of recursion (finite and infinite)\u2026 but most of all, the way profundity can be made to look like pure play.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cG\u00f6del, Escher, Bach\u201d at <a href=\"http:\/\/Amazon.com\">Amazon.com<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0465026567?tag=lifeboatfound-20\">https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0465026567?tag=lifeboatfound-20<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Opening music: \u201cCrystal City\u201d by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio.<br \/> Opening background: \u201cXANNN\u201d @ <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/165286507\">https:\/\/vimeo.com\/165286507<\/a> (Creative Commons) <\/p>\n<p>My SF&amp;F writing: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infinimata.com\/writing\/\">https:\/\/www.infinimata.com\/writing\/<\/a><br \/> My blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infinimata.com\/b\/\">https:\/\/www.infinimata.com\/b\/<\/a><br \/> Buy me something interesting: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/hz\/wishlist\/ls\/ZCWCKOKV6N9O?tag=lifeboatfound-20\">https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/hz\/wishlist\/ls\/ZCWCKOKV6N9O?tag=lifeboatfound-20<\/a><br \/> Buy me coffee, keep me going: <a href=\"https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/infinimata\">https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/infinimata<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOTE: Some folks have mentioned my pronunciation of G\u00f6del is wrong, I do apologize for that. Any author mulling artificial intelligence as a story element owes it to themselves to encounter this spellbinding, one-of-a-kind book. You also deserve to sit down with it if you\u2019re curious about any number of other SF&amp;F-adjacent topics: mathematics, pattern [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229,42,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-media-arts","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}