Spiralis skrev:
Har akkurat bestillt et lite lass fra Haugen bok:
"Jeg stoler på Jeeves" av P.G.Woodhouse Bøkene om Jeeves og Bertie Wooster er bare ubetalelig fornøyelig lesning.
Jeg regner med du har en hedersplass på harddisken eller i DVDhyllen til TV serien også?
Ellers er
dette en storveis god bok, men som krever litt av leseren:
"On its surface, GEB examines logician Kurt Gödel, artist M. C. Escher and composer Johann Sebastian Bach, discussing common themes in their work and lives. At a deeper level, the book is a detailed and subtle exposition of concepts fundamental to mathematics, symmetry, and intelligence.
Through illustration and analysis, the book discusses how self-reference and formal rules allow systems to acquire meaning despite being made of "meaningless" elements. It also discusses what it means to communicate, how knowledge can be represented and stored, the methods and limitations of symbolic representation, and even the fundamental notion of "meaning" itself.
In response to confusion over the book's theme, Hoftstadter has emphasized that GEB is not about mathematics, art, and music but rather about how consciousness and thinking emerges from well-hidden neurological mechanisms. In the book, he presents an analogy about how the individual neurons of the brain coordinate to create a unified sense of a coherent mind by comparing it to the social organization displayed in a colony of ants.["