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.

  • lucianbelew@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I’ve read it. I found it extremely interesting and entertaining.

    I’ve also taken graduate level logic courses from Larry Sklar, who, after spending two weeks talking us through the completeness and correctness theorems, announced, “there, we covered one of the more interesting and unintuitive aspects of the intersections of predicate logic and set theory. Now we can apply them, and nobody needs to bring up anything involving a 400 page completely vacuous book as a part of the conversation.”

    And he was right.