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Hofstadter & Dennet - "The Mind's I"
Series of essays on self, AI, consciousness, intelligence, ... with Dennet and Hofstadter commenting them. It gives an excellent introduction in the subjects, and a lot of food for thought.
Long time ago since I read that. Maybe I should re-read it and see if it's as good as I can remember...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mind%27s_I
I'd have to add just about everything else by Hofstadter, especially Gödel, Escher, Bach.
But I must add: exceptions are his I am a Strange Loop (terrible, redundant, and maudlin), and his Fluid Analogies (uninteresting to anyone not trying to code up a Copycat).
So basically, in order: GEB, Le Ton beau de Marot, and Metamagical Themas.
EDIT: correct LTDBM spelling; I was going from memory, and clearly I didn't remember the right order & capitalization.
"Le Ton beau de Marot". (Not only does the meaning get scrambled with "ton" and "de" swapped, but Hofstadter's pun gets destroyed too.)
I gather his translation of Eugene Onegin is pretty wretched too.