A google search took me to a caustic discussion of a Hofstadter book:
The New Skeptic: I Am a Strange Loop: Gödel's Loop
…Continuing my review of I Am a Strange Loop, today I get to tackle metamathematics. Hofstadter tackles it too, and finds it rich in philosophic insight. Strangely rich, actually.
I suppose I ought to explain who Kurt Gödel is and why he is a hero of many, many nerds today (I am among those ranks). And that tale doesn't start with Gödel, so stay patient while I explain the background…
Caustic and opinionated, but interesting. I started to look at the archives. Should I grab this feed?
Then I saw the “links of note”: national review, weekly standard, rush… savage … beck …
On closer inspection, the stranger in the night wears a necklace of human noses.
Backing slowly away …
Thank heavens for the link list – who knows what horrors I might have been exposed to!
Quel dommage.
ReplyDeleteSee what I mean? They even speak a foreign language.
ReplyDeleteA close call indeed!