What book did you read >10 years too early? What book did you read >10 years too late? What book did you read at about the right time?
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Replying to @vgr
I bought Godel, Escher, Bach 5 years ago. I think I may wait 5 more years for it to be just right.
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Replying to @vedang
GEB is ideally college or right after. It’s a bit dated now given recent advances so likely won’t have as much effect.
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Adam Strandberg Retweeted Adam Strandberg
not just dated, its primary thesis was wrong from the starthttps://twitter.com/The_Lagrangian/status/906897792668401665 …
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Replying to @The_Lagrangian @vedang
I don't agree with that assertion at all. It does have a bearing. We just don't know what that bearing is yet.
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"It _may_ have a bearing. We don't know if it does yet.", imo
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Replying to @evertedsphere @mrkgrnao and
Also, GEB is technically what is known as a "romp" through an idea space. To think of it as having a "primary thesis" is to miss the point of works like that. It's not a hedgehog grand-unified-theory of something. It's a foxy buffet of stuff interesting/fertile to juxtapose
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Yes, and I believe DH has expressed frustration at people trying to find a "point" in the book too. Approaching it as a koan, vaguely, works.
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Replying to @evertedsphere @mrkgrnao and
i disagree- something can be a romp and still have a primary thesis. i agree that it's amazingly written and has lots of good bits that work on their own, but all of them lean on or contribute to the consciousness/proof-system connection, which is fundamentally wrong
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