I’ve begun reading Godel, Escher, Bach an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter a Pulitzer Prize-Winning book originally published in 1979.
What is GEB really all about? Some think the title tells it all: a book about a mathematician, an artist, and a musician. There’s no way the book is about these three people! Well, then, what about a book that sohws how math, art, and music are really the same thing at their core? Again, this is a million miles off. In a word, GEB is a very personal attempt to say how it is that animate beings can come from inanimate matter. What is a self, and how can a self come out of stuff that is as as selfless as a stone or a puddle? What is an “I”, and why are such things found only mounted atop mobile pedestals that roam the world on pairs of slightly fuzzy, jointed stilts?
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