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.

  • priceQQ@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I read it 20 years ago and loved it at the time. I have a degree in math, so those aspects were interesting and relatively simple. The music and programming parts were more interesting to me, but I fear that the programming won’t age well.

    The parts that stuck with me the most though were the Zen koans. Stepping outside the duality of things, finding anti logical statements, and appreciating the “little A, little B” of reality impacted my approach to life.