“Why is some music so much deeper and more beautiful than other music? It is because form, in music, is expressive–expressive to some strange subconscious regions of our minds. The sounds of music do not refer to serfs or city-states, but they do trigger clouds of emotion in our innermost selves; in that sense musical meaning IS dependent on intangible links from symbols to things in the world–those 'things', in this case, being secret software structures in our minds.”
― Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
― Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
“Meaning lies as much
in the mind of the reader
as in the Haiku.”
― Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
in the mind of the reader
as in the Haiku.”
― Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
“We are all egocentric, and what is realest to each of us, in the end, is ourself.”
― I Am a Strange Loop
― I Am a Strange Loop
Asmita’s 2025 Year in Books
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