Gödel, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

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By reading Noam Chomsky, Syntactic Structures, I remembered reading book " Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid" also known as GEB written by Douglas Hofstader. He talked about creating something from nothing and creating nothing from something with summation of derivative rules. Noam Chomsky as well as Douglas talked about sentences derivation from finite to infinite as well as from infinite to finite with meaning or without meaning. For that, we need language. Language has systems. It is seen as finite state and infinite state. Running closed loops as well as recursive devices with grammar rules create infinite state. On the other hand, using higher linguistic levels, we can create finite language with alphabet. Making of language

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