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Yeah, thanks for mentioning GEB, it was really the original inspiration for my previous question. I read the book years ago, and loved it. Learning about Gödel
by alanbernstein 6y ago
Yeah, thanks for mentioning GEB, it was really the original inspiration for my previous question.
I read the book years ago, and loved it. Learning about Gödel's incompleteness theorems had already my blown my mind; Escher already was, and still is, my favorite visual artist. I remember well, at a general level, the book's explanations of counterpoint, constraints, and logic in Bach's compositions. In stark contrast to the rest of the book's content, that was all somewhat academic since the book didn't play any music.
Ever since reading the book, it has greatly saddened me to think about how much enjoyment I get from the work of Gödel and Escher, and that I'm missing out on the third component of Hofstadter's holy trinity of self-reference.