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I've been reading Gödel, Escher, Bach. It does funny things to my nerdbones.
Category Artwork (Digital) / Comics
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Size 1230 x 442px
File Size 67.3 kB
"This sentenc has three erors."
Ooooh, I want to read that soon too.
I'm reading László Mérő's Habits of Mind : The Power and Limits of Rational Thought (the title of which should tell enough about the content, plus that it also has alot of formal logical stuff and artificial intelligence in the approach)(and I'm reading it in the original language because I'm from around there), and it refers to the book a few times.
Good stuff, indeed.
Ooooh, I want to read that soon too.
I'm reading László Mérő's Habits of Mind : The Power and Limits of Rational Thought (the title of which should tell enough about the content, plus that it also has alot of formal logical stuff and artificial intelligence in the approach)(and I'm reading it in the original language because I'm from around there), and it refers to the book a few times.
Good stuff, indeed.
This comic borrows a lot of funny "puzzles" from GEB, including the quining sentences, the "false ending" panel, multiple levels of self-reference and saying-by-not-saying. It's a bit more here, though, since I'm also saying something about the "language" of comics.
The thing about reading GEB is that you're likely to notice something new about the book itself every time you read it. One needs a bottom-up, deductive approach to understanding it. Physically, it's a big book, but it gets bigger when you pick out details folded into the explicit text. It's fun in a Lewis Carroll kind of way, very refreshing for an otherwise academic work.
Thanks, I'll check if that one is in my University library. Being in a Engineering-slanted institution tends to limit my selection.
The thing about reading GEB is that you're likely to notice something new about the book itself every time you read it. One needs a bottom-up, deductive approach to understanding it. Physically, it's a big book, but it gets bigger when you pick out details folded into the explicit text. It's fun in a Lewis Carroll kind of way, very refreshing for an otherwise academic work.
Thanks, I'll check if that one is in my University library. Being in a Engineering-slanted institution tends to limit my selection.
When we "define" things like Pi, we're really (i)describing a collection of decision processes to determine whether or not something is Pi, or (ii)describing a method meant to direct our thoughts towards/around this thing that is Pi.
We can think of Pi, and express its relation to other things, but we can't really have the totality of Pi itself in our thoughts. Hence, the resource problem means that we need to reexamine the nature of math as it is now. I'm still hopeful for newer intuitive structures, though. =)
We can think of Pi, and express its relation to other things, but we can't really have the totality of Pi itself in our thoughts. Hence, the resource problem means that we need to reexamine the nature of math as it is now. I'm still hopeful for newer intuitive structures, though. =)
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