A 1979 Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Douglas Hofstadter exploring self-reference and consciousness through dialogues between an imaginary Achilles and Tortoise, interleaved with chapters on Gödel's incompleteness theorems, Escher's art, and Bach's fugues.
Provided the theoretical framework for Nolan's Inception — the strange loop is the film's architectural logic, the dream-within-dream is a formal hierarchy that contains itself — and directly influenced Zimmer's use of Shepard tones as auditory strange loops.
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