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Gödel, Escher, Bach

By Floris WolswijkPublished Edited 1 min read
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Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. Hofstadter is a tome of a book. At the time of these notes I was only one-seventh of the way through it.

Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. Hofstadter is a tome of a book. At the time of these notes I was only one-seventh of the way through it.

In the introduction, Hofstadter asks how life can arise from inanimate matter. I also noted that life seemed to have arisen quickly on Earth once conditions were right, and wondered how.