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“This is the most intelligent, the deepest, the most beautiful book in the world […] It is saddening to contemplate that every day, 150K humans die without reading what is indisputably one of the greatest achievements of our species. Don't let it happen to you. […]

PhD in aviation ∩ climate science | Aviator, diver, Etherean, nexialist | Host of /diving /ethfinance /eth-staker /geopolitics /science /singapore /thomas

Sure, if you're just an average person, you might not understand everything in this book — but when you're done reading, you won't be an average person any more.”

This is Eliezer Yudkowsky’s review of Douglas Hofstadter’s 1979 Pulitzer Prize-wining “Gödel, Escher, Bach” (GEB), which motivated me to read the book a long time ago.

GEB had a profound impact on me because it confronted me with sheer intelligence far above mine, and the interconnectedness of things.

I wanted to share so that it perhaps motivates you to read it, too.

how does “sheer intelligence far above yours” feel like when reading it? what are the sensations it brings to your body?

father. working on /anky, a game for writers

The sensation of neural connections being formed between ideas that I didn’t know could be connected. The taste of nexialism, maybe a proxy for how synesthesia actually feels like