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Douglas Hofstadter describes and defines the concept of
recursion, and discusses its applications in computer science,
consciousness, art, music, biology and various other fields.
Recursion is crucial to writing computer programs in a compact,
elegant way, but it also opens the door to infinite loops and
irreconcilable logical contradictions.  Visual remixes  Long
before I got interested in electronic music, I was a fine arts
guy. It bothers me that unauthorized appropriation of a music
recording will get you sued, but visual artists who appropriate
pop cultural materials get into museums and art history
textbooks. Marcel Duchamp In ancient times and more traditional
societies, there was never […]