How Strange Is The Loop?
http://www.crummy.com/2008/12/22/0
"Because of these two books I came up with my current working explanation of death: when you die, you become a fictional character."
Amazon.com: I Am a Strange Loop: Books: Douglas Hofstadter
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465030785/ref=reg_hu-wl_item-added
"And whatever readers' reaction to the underlying arguments for this unique view of consciousness, they will find the model provocative and heroically humane."
Mu (negative) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_(negative)
"The word features prominently in Douglas R. Hofstadter's 1979 book, Gödel, Escher, Bach, where it is used fancifully in the context of discussions on symbolic logic, particularly Gödel's incompleteness theorem."