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4.31 AVERAGE
4.31 AVERAGE
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
Meaning lies as much
in the mind of the reader
as in the Haiku.
in the mind of the reader
as in the Haiku.
Fun read, brought back the joy of poring over Escher lithographs as a kid. I liked the thesis of self-reflexivity as the key to complex behavior and thought it summed up the incompleteness theorem pretty well as "every sufficiently complex language has a way to say 'this statement is false.'" The only thing that dates it a bit is the speculation on AI in the last third, but I didn't really mind.
“My feeling is that the process by which we decide what is valid or what is true is an art; and that it relies as deeply on a sense of beauty and simplicity as it does in rock solid principles of logic or reasoning or anything else which can be objectively formalized”
I would give this 6 stars if I could. It’s without a doubt the most brilliant and intellectually stimulating book I’ve ever read.
I would give this 6 stars if I could. It’s without a doubt the most brilliant and intellectually stimulating book I’ve ever read.
challenging
funny
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
challenging
funny
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inspiring
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This book is simply incredible. The second part was a bit more boring for me - and seems to be a bit outdated - but I also haven't fully grasped the ideas presented in it. I assume I'll have to read "I Am A Strange Loop" for that. Everything else about this book was amazing and I've had a great pleasure reading it. 5 stars.
This really is a brilliant book but not just for the heady concepts involved, of which there are many. The real brilliance comes in the presentation of the material, it makes this comprehensible to more than just a select few. The chapters alternate. first a dialogue between Achilles and The Tortoise who converse in a thematically related way to the following chapter where concepts of varying difficulty are discussed and examined. I wouldn’t have gotten though the metamathematics sections with any sense of understanding without those dialogues.
I would be curious to see what an updated version would look like considering the growing importance of AI in society.
I would be curious to see what an updated version would look like considering the growing importance of AI in society.
adventurous
challenging
funny
informative
reflective
slow-paced
easily one of the most thought provoking books i’ve read. could’ve been edited and cut down a bit imo, but ultimately gotta love hofstader’s nerding out over finding patterns and isomorphisms
