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The single most important book I think I've ever read. I've never read something that I kept coming back to year after year, reading a little farther into it ev
by paulkaplan 14y ago
The single most important book I think I've ever read. I've never read something that I kept coming back to year after year, reading a little farther into it every time. If I was stranded on a desert island with only one book, I'd bring this one. It would keep me busy for more than long enough.
- pavel_lishin 14y agoAt first I agreed with you, but then I realized that I'd be stuck on a desert island AND I'd feel stupid.
- kamaal 14y agoAbsolutely. Especially because the whole book is about how things spring out of nothingness.
- paulkaplan 14y agoAccording to him that's what the books core idea seems to boil down to, but I think I'd bring the book with me because of all the other things as well: "fugues and canons, logic and truth, geometry, recursion, syntactic structures, the nature of meaning, zen buddhism, paradoxes, brain and mind, reductionism and holism, ant colonies, concepts and mental representations, translation, computers and creativity, consciousness and free will, sometimes even art and music of all things!" -preface to the twentieth anniversary edition