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Re:Ask HN: Which books have made you introspect? by dlwdlw on Friday May 11, 2018 @11:58AM (#17048345)
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance as well as Godel, Escher, Bach.

Helped me see the limitations of rationality, rigor, and measurement.

Re:Ask HN: Which books have made you introspect? by sesteel on Friday May 11, 2018 @01:24PM (#17049158)
Godel, Escher, Bach changed my entire world view.
Re:Ask HN: Which books have made you introspect? by Balgair on Friday May 11, 2018 @01:30PM (#17049235)
How so? I read it, and though very good with the logic/math, I wasn't as moved. I'd love to know more about your journey.

Edit: For me 'Information' by Glieck was very good, as it summed up the logical 'journey of man' as a struggle to refine signal to noise. When interpreting math/logic as such, I was floored and a lot of things made more sense to me.

Re:Ask HN: Which books have made you introspect? by sesteel on Friday May 11, 2018 @02:37PM (#17049775)
I read it while in college. It put me into a mental space where I was considering recursion on a universal scale for the first time. I'd never considered, previously, how recursive processes construct everything I see and experience, including my own consciousness. It was the most beautiful idea I'd ever come across and satisfied my need to answer how we came to be.
Re:Ask HN: Which books have made you introspect? by urda on Friday May 11, 2018 @01:51PM (#17049406)
This has been my number one book for pretty much my entire adult life.

It's worth the read, 100%.

Re:Ask HN: Which books have made you introspect? by daveslash on Friday May 11, 2018 @12:04PM (#17048411)
I second this - on both books.
Re:Ask HN: Which books have made you introspect? by levthedev on Friday May 11, 2018 @12:24PM (#17048614)
Two great books.