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My impression of I Am a Strange Loop was that it contains a subset of the ideas in GEB, and lacks the off the wall charm (and delicious mathematics) that GEB co
by 467568985476 11y ago
My impression of I Am a Strange Loop was that it contains a subset of the ideas in GEB, and lacks the off the wall charm (and delicious mathematics) that GEB contains. I sometimes recommend it to people who tried to read GEB and gave up, but I don't think there's much to learn from I Am a Strange Loop if you're already familiar with Hofstadter and GEB.
- vectorjohn 11y agoCan you un-acronym GEB?
- gerbilly 11y agoGôdel Escher Bach Douglas Hofstadter, 1979 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach
- baddox 11y agoI've heard that it's a much more refined version of the strange loop idea presented in GEB, although now that I think of it, it was probably the author who claimed that.