Re:Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
by breadbox on Friday May 16, 2014 @12:24PM
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I would say that it changed my life. However, I read it when I was 18, at that point where any number of books have the ability to change your life.
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Re:Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
by dominotw on Friday May 16, 2014 @12:53PM
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Do you mind me asking how it changed it your life?
Re:Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
by breadbox on Friday May 16, 2014 @02:37PM
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I was at the perfect level of education to appreciate the information in GEB. I was a young programmer and math enthusiast with an average high-school education. My knowledge of Boolean logic went as far as De Morgan's law. I knew next to nothing about classical music, functional programming, meta-mathematics, propositional calculus, Dadaism, or molecular biology.
Reading GEB felt like reading the Cliff Notes to an entire college education especially tailored for the kind of person I didn't yet realize I already was.