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- I cannot do this book justice in trying to summarize and distill the lessons throughout. I know when I am out of my league and implore you to watch the following videos taught at MIT around GEB. Also found here, on YouTube if you want to watch at double speed.
What I got out of it:
- An absolutely fascinating and thought-provoking book. Hofstadter discusses so many topics which were new to me and out of my general area of knowledge and comfort zone. It is refreshing to read about an area that I knew so little about and it gave me a much deeper insight into the beauty of mathematics, art and music than I had ever understood.