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This is Douglas Hofstadter, professor of Cognitive & Computer Science at Indiana University Bloomington
Best known for his book Goedel, Escher, Bach (1980)
this is nerd 🧵 about his influence on me, and the present https://t.co/dsZkkRVV9U
Douglas R. Hofstadter, whose ten-year-old Gödel, Escher, Bach shows few signs of fatigue. Several years ago the Club, not even blinking at the title, offered his Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern, which ponders such imponderables as the nature of human creativity and the limits of artificial intelligence.
William Zinsser • Writing to Learn: How to Write - and Think - Clearly About Any Subject at All
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.
Steven Kotler • Last Tango in Cyberspace: A Novel
"Mind" is a tool invented by the universe to see itself; but it can never see all of itself, for much the same reason that you can’t see your own back (without mirrors).“