Throughout the book, Hofstadter discusses the work of M.C. Escher, a painter famous for his paradoxical paintings that question how the mind perceives space.

通过这本书，霍夫斯塔特发现了M.cEscher（一个因画风怪诞并且对大脑是如何进行空间思维提出疑问的著名画家）的工作原理。