What does /lit/ think about GEB?

Dunno; never read it. Anyone have an ePub of it? All I can find are PDFs.

I find it boring without much point other than just 'ooh look at this loop/paradox, cool amirite?'

Just rambles about those 3 guys plus alan turing. Might as well just read their biographies

do you really think any of the pseudo on /lit/ are capable of understanding its contents?

its basically a fluffed up 1000 page explanation of godel's incompleteness theorems.
i enjoyed it

>>7389147
It's pretty cozy.
Sometimes it feels like he avoids spelling theoretical things out for you when that would have been more appropriate than metaphors, which was annoying to me.
>>7389168
Too many pictures for an epub most likely.
>>7389394
Pretty much.

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>>7389394
>>7389386
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>>7389168

learn emacs and understand macros/human-computer interaction

then understand the "read eval print" mechanism of lisp and recursive programming

then get a webcam on a long usb cable and record the live feed back into itself, adjusting the parameters until you get trippy graphics, tinker for infinite complexity

happy hacking

>>7389412
Dude loops lmao

>>7389416

dude philosophy linguistics and physics lmao

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_return
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursion#In_language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loop_quantum_gravity

>>7389386
Do you think any psuedo /sci/fag is capable either?

I gave this book to my scientist father for his birthday thinking he'd like it, and he hasn't read a single page.

>>7389147
It's extremely stupid on multiple levels. The harmless stupidity is when he claims that a fugue is self-referential in the same way that an Escher-painting is self-referential (musical notes simply don't have a referential function in this way. The most you can do in terms of mimesis is 'this flute part sounds like a bird', or 'if you know that this piece is named for a river, it kinda sounds like one (very vaguely)'. Music simply doesn't work like that).

The more important stupidity is that he thinks strange loops are consciousness and thus a mathematical system which includes a strange loops is a consciousness. That is retarded both in relation to consciousness and in relation to the level on which symbolic concepts 'exist'.

>>7389168
There isn't one yet, the guy spent so much time on the lateX formatting he doesn't like the idea.

>>7389427
A few could with serious effort. Though most /sci/fags could not since a good chunk of that board is people baiting for homework answers.

It's the epitome of pop-sci, all style, no substance, and a bullshit pet theory snuck in among established theories. It's sad that people like >>7389427 think that concepts like regular languages, limits, Turing completeness and Gödel's incompleteness theorem are hard because they are badly explained using metaphors that make no sense.

passive-aggressive attempt at appropriating Godel for nefarious materialist ends