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Project: The Total Library
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I havn't been fortunate enough to finish reading this book yet. Regardless, this book has provided me with a new way of seeing the world. Perhaps all good books should do this to some degree, but this book has helped me understand why this is so.
Douglas Hofstadter has infused his central idea with artistry, to the point of making his discussions of Formal Logic exciting and entertaining. (That's skill!). The book attempts to describe features of intelligence, and the nature of the mind and it's methods of identifying, decoding and creating patterns.
I'm currently only half-way done reading this book, and already I am more conscious of some of the underlying patterns that surround me. Hofstadter has managed to evoke within me the realization that reality is much more simple, and much more complex than I could ever have imagined.
I highly recommend doing a search for this book, and even of the author, as both results may inform and inspire to a degree that this little review can only hope.
Douglas Hofstadter has infused his central idea with artistry, to the point of making his discussions of Formal Logic exciting and entertaining. (That's skill!). The book attempts to describe features of intelligence, and the nature of the mind and it's methods of identifying, decoding and creating patterns.I'm currently only half-way done reading this book, and already I am more conscious of some of the underlying patterns that surround me. Hofstadter has managed to evoke within me the realization that reality is much more simple, and much more complex than I could ever have imagined.
I highly recommend doing a search for this book, and even of the author, as both results may inform and inspire to a degree that this little review can only hope.
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