By Douglas hofstadter? I’m wondering what people opinions are on the book as I finished it after a few months of reading it and it was quite a journey.

I had issues regarding the mathematics equations for a big part and honestly skipped over a lot of them but didn’t find them to be needed to understand the main points of the book but maybe someone can clue me into that.

I’m more interested in if it changed anyones preconceived notions or beliefs they once held.

  • low_slearner@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I read it a few years ago. It was really hard work to get through, and also quite a lot of fun - I loved how playful it was. I’ll definitely re-read it some day.

    I wouldn’t say it changed any of my beliefs, but I’m not sure that was the intention . It presented an idea - a weird, wonderful, complex idea - but without any evidence to back it up.

    For what it’s worth, I think there’s a subreddit which is devoted to the book, and I seem to recall they do a sort of ongoing book club for it.