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Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
by Douglas R. Hofstadter
Have you ever seen or heard something you didn’t understand? Did you dismiss it as nonsense? Did you search for a context against which it might make sense?
What did you do to find context? Have you ever been unable to find it? Did you give up, or bookmark it for later? Or did you somehow know that the search would be endless?
Is anything “nonsense” or is there always some possible context? Or is everything nonsense at a small enough scale? How many steps does it take to understand a simple thing like “water?” Do all of those steps make sense?
This book is highly readable utter nonsense. Think Lewis Carroll cubed.
What did you do to find context? Have you ever been unable to find it? Did you give up, or bookmark it for later? Or did you somehow know that the search would be endless?
Is anything “nonsense” or is there always some possible context? Or is everything nonsense at a small enough scale? How many steps does it take to understand a simple thing like “water?” Do all of those steps make sense?
This book is highly readable utter nonsense. Think Lewis Carroll cubed.