Already old work by the time the book was written. Why isn't 'Godel, Escher, Bach' on Kindle? I keep stumbling into positive comments about this classic book on the Internet and become all hyped up, but Amazon apparently doesn't have its …

Welcome, everyone, to the first Gödel Escher Bach Reading Group Discussion! It also brings up several ideas that are very interesting, even if they don’t relate directly to any of the main concepts of the book. Gödel Escher Bach Group Read Notes and Schedule Hi all! This week, we'll be talking about the first three "chapters" in the book, the Introduction, the first dialog Three-Part Invention, and Chapter 1: The MU-Puzzle.. There are many ways to read GEB including attempting to divine the author's own (subsequently) stated intent: > A very personal attempt to say how it is that animate beings can come out of inanimate matter. Remember that the book was discussing the work of Goedel, Escher and Bach. After the great response yesterday from r/compsci and r/geb , I’ve decided to go ahead and draft up a rough copy of the schedule for our read, some notes about discussion format, and a quick poll to gauge interest in … Godel's inclusion stems from the nature of Godel's proof, suggesting that the mind can capture truth and meaning beyond that which is formally provable, yet how that same mind itself is essentially created from mindless stuff. House of Leaves (Mark Z. Danielewski) 25.

The Giver 26. It also helped that my father as a subscriber to Scientific American, and I was familiar with Hofstadter's columns and interests. If you'd like to jump a head or want a reminder on what you have to read for next week, the schedule is currently posted here. I had an appreciation for Bach and Escher, and this is what led me to an understanding (albeit slightly vague) of Godel which I would certainly never have come to on my own.

Tao Te Ching 24. 332,332 views ... Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid 23. ... but it is a very intriguing book, I am reading it for the third time now. Which are invariably very interesting.