Gödel, Escher, Bach Wiki
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Overview[]

Various levels of seeing pictures, chessboards, and computer systems are discussed. The last of these is then examined in detail.  This involves describing machine languages, assembly languages, compiler languages, operating systems, and so forth. Then the discussion turns to composite systems of other types, such as sports teams, nuclei, atoms, the weather, and so forth.  The question arises as to how many intermediate levels exist - or indeed whether any exist.

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