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Nornagest comments on Books on consciousness? - Less Wrong Discussion

8 Post author: mgg 23 September 2014 10:28PM

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Comment author: Nornagest 24 September 2014 08:57:29PM *  2 points [-]

If you're going to do Hofstadter on consciousness, I Am A Strange Loop is a little more on-point than GEB. GEB is quite good, but most of its pagecount is devoted to an extended exploration of formal grammars and self-reference more generally, which is relevant but mainly as background.