Skyler
Puritan Board Graduate
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I checked this book out from the library a few years ago, and didn't quite get all the way through it before I had to return it. (This was an interlibrary loan book, so I couldn't renew it.)
It's about "how cognition and thinking emerge from well-hidden neurological mechanisms." But Hofstadter wasn't content with just getting his point across; he wrote the book with the form in mind as much as the content, resulting in what is, in my more or less uneducated opinion, a masterpiece.
He delves into mathematics, music, philosophy, symmetry, and many other fascinating topics as he pursues his point. If you are, like myself, fascinated by intricate philosophical and/or mathematical and/or musical and/or literary structures, I think it's safe to say that you'll enjoy the book as well.
Well, that's enough of a review, I think. Some of you have this book, I'm pretty sure--it came up a while ago in a "recommended reading" list someone was asking for. I guess if you're on the PuritanBoard, intricate theological and/or philosophical structures start to come naturally after a while.
I checked this book out from the library a few years ago, and didn't quite get all the way through it before I had to return it. (This was an interlibrary loan book, so I couldn't renew it.)
It's about "how cognition and thinking emerge from well-hidden neurological mechanisms." But Hofstadter wasn't content with just getting his point across; he wrote the book with the form in mind as much as the content, resulting in what is, in my more or less uneducated opinion, a masterpiece.
He delves into mathematics, music, philosophy, symmetry, and many other fascinating topics as he pursues his point. If you are, like myself, fascinated by intricate philosophical and/or mathematical and/or musical and/or literary structures, I think it's safe to say that you'll enjoy the book as well.
Well, that's enough of a review, I think. Some of you have this book, I'm pretty sure--it came up a while ago in a "recommended reading" list someone was asking for. I guess if you're on the PuritanBoard, intricate theological and/or philosophical structures start to come naturally after a while.