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Re:Ask HN: Life Changing Books? by rutgerv on Saturday December 18, 2021 @11:48AM (#29605953)
Gödel, Escher, Bach completely blew me away and quite radically changed the way I looked at the world. Highly recommended.
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Re:Ask HN: Life Changing Books? by messe on Saturday December 18, 2021 @12:14PM (#29606241)
Same here. If you're looking for fiction that felt (at least to me) to cover similar themes, I would suggest Greg Egan's Permutation City.
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Re:Ask HN: Life Changing Books? by rookie123 on Saturday December 18, 2021 @11:51AM (#29605988)
Can you elaborate on how it changed your way?

Would help in understanding context.

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Re:Ask HN: Life Changing Books? by 2bitlobster on Saturday December 18, 2021 @12:19PM (#29606285)
For me, systems thinking, incompleteness theorem, writing style, consciousness... Definitely helped set my path in building thinking tools as a career.
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