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Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter

5.0

I dont know if math, CS, AI people will find this as interesting as I did, or if its too obvious or vague bullshit for them. I dont work in any of these fields so it was a very interesting read. There are a couple of levels on which I think this book can be appreciated. There is the core idea in which the author tries to propose a model for things like intelligence and consciousness. In order to do this, he goes through a lot of concepts which get slowly (sometimes vaguely) connected. The dialogues between achilles and tortoise are very interesting (they do get a bit old by the end) and the author had me gripped just by that. Some parts were a bit hard to get around, like the part where he kind of goes about proving godel's theorem.
All in all, a great book. One of the best that I have read.