On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 3:59 AM, Thaths <[email protected]> wrote: > Which book made *you*, dear Silk lister, change your mind? How?
Rudy Rucker's _Infinity and the Mind_. 1. It kicked off a lifelong fascination with the concept of infinity. 2. It provided an accessible introduction to Godel's Incompleteness Theorems, which also changed my mind in many ways (no, Hofstadter was *not* a good introduction, although GEB was great in many other ways) 3. It provided an interesting, previously unconsidered, way of thinking about mysticism. Udhay PS: I invited Rudy to silk when I started it in 1997, but he declined. :) -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
