I couldn't agree more! It's not that #Idontlike Douglas #Hofstadter's Gödel Escher Bach: there are some brilliant ideas in it. But I don't get all the fuzz around this book. It aims very high: showing recursion as an unifying pattern of maths, #CognitiveScience and art, in a recursive manner... But the result is quite verbose, with a lot of hand-waving. Honestly, I prefer a book like "Metamagical themas", where Hofstadter shares his reflections on these topics without trying to add stylistic effects.
https://mastodon.social/users/alatitude77/statuses/100322535956471172 @alatitude77 #bookstodon #GödelEscherBach

I couldn't agree more! It's not that #Idontlike Douglas #Hofstadter's Gödel Escher Bach: there are some brilliant ideas in it. But I don't get all the fuzz around this book. It aims very high: showing recursion as an unifying pattern of maths, #CognitiveScience and art, in a recursive manner... But the result is quite verbose, with a lot of hand-waving. Honestly, I prefer a book like "Metamagical themas", where Hofstadter shares his reflections on these topics without trying to add stylistic effects.
https://mastodon.social/users/alatitude77/statuses/100322535956471172 #bookstodon #GödelEscherBach

I couldn't agree more! It's not that #Idontlike Douglas #Hofstadter's Godel Escher Bach: there are some brilliant ideas in it. But I don't get all the fuzz around this book. It aims very high: showing recursion as an unifying pattern of maths, cognitive science and art, in a recursive manner... But the result is quite verbose, with a lot of hand-waving. Honesty I prefer a book like "Metamagical themas", where Hofstadter shares his reflections on these topics without trying to add stylistic effects.
https://mastodon.social/users/alatitude77/statuses/100322535956471172

The feeling ...
when you are deploying to live and nobody else cares. #idontlike

Was ich nicht mag: Milch, lautes Schmatzen, Kugelschreiberklicken, Duftbäume, Nespresso, Esoterik, Diktatoren, altes Öl, Opportunismus, Ignoranz, Martin Walser, den Geruch von Eisen und Monologe. #neuhier #introduction #idontlike