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Surprised Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid isn't in there somewhere...
by FuriouslyAdrift 2y ago
Surprised Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid isn't in there somewhere...
- tshaddox 2y agoFor what it's worth, "The Mind's I" is on the list, which was edited by Douglas Hofstadter and Daniel Dennett.
- sitkack 2y agoMind's I is a much better book, GEB is one of those books that everyone has that no one has read. Read the Cliff's Notes for GEB and spend your time on Mind's I. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mind%27s_I https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mind%27s_I
- tshaddox 2y agoI haven't read The Mind's I, but I rather enjoyed GEB when I read it in college. I didn't realize it was considered a book "no one actually reads." My sense has been quite the opposite!
- jhbadger 2y agoBack in the day, lots of people did read GEB, although we often missed the point. Apparently (as he wrote in an introduction in a later edition) the point of the book was to encourage people to study AI (at a time when it wasn't popular). While I can see this now, at the time I was more intrigued by his chapter on molecular biology and went into that instead.
- FuriouslyAdrift 2y agoI Am a Strange Loop is also good...
- mfragin 2y agoWolfram's "A New Kind of Science" is not on the list.
- Jtsummers 2y ago> November-December 1999 A New Kind of Science was published in 2002. Unless the author of this list had access to the future, it would have been hard to include it.