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Re:Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by pdpi on Friday May 16, 2014 @11:29AM (#7755975)
> it boils all of consciousness down to, essentially, language.

Really? I'd have said that it boiled consciousness down to the idea of self-reference (what he calls "strange loops").

EDIT: Perhaps you mean Le Ton Beau de Marot? That one definitely deals with the relationship between language and consciousness.

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Re:Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by VonGuard on Friday May 16, 2014 @02:15PM (#7756924)
Yeah, that's the one. I said I simplified it greatly. And we wouldn't even be able to understand that we were strange loops without a language with which to define the terms.
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