Hi Ian, I'm only to page 67, and fighting my distaste for detail. I had the same problem with GEB, which I did not complete. I keep telling myself that I will eventually find something to add to the big picture.
The book 'Mind's I' good sounds good. Love the titles... Marsha On May 24, 2010, at 10:32 AM, Ian Glendinning wrote: > Be interested to hear what you think of Strange Loop, Marsha. > > I have "GEB", "Mind's I" and "Fluid Concepts ...", all excellent, and > I am totally sold on his level-shifting recursion generating patterns > upon patterns, but never did actually buy a copy of Strange Loop > (yet). > Also like the parallel's between Hofstadter and Pirsig's early biographies ... > > Ian > > On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 4:13 PM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Adrie, >> >> At the moment, I'm reading 'I Am A Strange Loop' by Douglas Hofstadter. >> Could you >> explain you bargain to get me to read Hawking's book? Hawking seems to be >> more >> into science fiction (Into the Universe) than having a philosophical bent. >> So I am >> curious. >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLHR8zaEsA8&feature=related >> >> >> Marsha >> >> >> >> On May 23, 2010, at 7:02 PM, Fam. Kintziger-Karaca wrote: >> >>> Well, marsha, i will answer your question about the Moors , "where did the >>> moors go";.. >>> if you read hawking first ,i will answer your question , i know where they >>> went... >>> I live on the bounderies of the dutch/spanisch war, some 20 mile's from >>> here , i often go there >>> on the smugglers path, with my owls . >>> >>> Hawking not to be taken seriously? .. this man is more than a candidate >>> nobel prize winner,... >>> >>> Regards , Adrie >>> >>> >>> Moq_Discuss mailing list >>> Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. >>> http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org >>> Archives: >>> http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ >>> http://moq.org/md/archives.html >> >> >> >> ___ >> >> >> Moq_Discuss mailing list >> Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. >> http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org >> Archives: >> http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ >> http://moq.org/md/archives.html >> > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html ___ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
