Ask HN: Mind bending books to read and never be the same as before?
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goldenshale · May 13, 2020
Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter: create a new mathematics from the axioms up, while strolling along with a wise tortoise and a hare who share fascinating ideas and connections from art and music to number theory, incompleteness, and consciousness.
inventtheday · May 12, 2020
Godel Escher Bach by Hofstadter. I was never even close to the same afterwards.
poulsbohemian · May 12, 2020
Carnegie wrote something that is easy to access and get people started down a path.
wigl · May 12, 2020
Thinking, Fast and Slow is good if you like pop-sci, but has aged like milk if you are into the science.
mattbk1 · May 12, 2020
I found the stories in Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged to be compelling enough
goldenshale · May 13, 2020
Accelerando by Charles Stross: Be there to receive a phone call from a sentient hive lobster consciousness that escaped from the lab, and watch the singularity happen in a hilarious and mind bending fast take off.