MIT Godel Escher Bach Lecture 1
Why Hacker News recommends it
Recommended as a companion to reading the dense book.
What it is
The first lecture of an MIT course on Douglas Hofstadter's Godel, Escher, Bach, covering themes like self-reference, recursion and incompleteness. The full lecture series is on YouTube.
Recommended by 3 HN commenters across 3 different months, 2017 to 2021.
What Hacker News said
Recommends dugditches · 2017-05 · on “Show HN: 100M Books – Open a new tab, discover a new book”
I personally found it 'heavy'. There's a lot to think about and take in. As it's not like reading typical technical books or papers. There's a great charm/fun and cleverness once things fall into place. There's an excellent MIT course for it. All the Lectures on Youtube as well. [LINK] [this video]
Recommends azhenley · 2019-11 · on “Gödel, Escher, Bach”
MIT had a course on the book with recordings on YouTube. They’re great to watch as you work through the book: [this video]
Recommends xtiansimon · 2021-02 · on “The Art of Reading More Effectively and Efficiently”
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