NOTE: Some folks have mentioned my pronunciation of Gödel is wrong, I do apologize for that.
Any author mulling artificial intelligence as a story element owes it to themselves to encounter this spellbinding, one-of-a-kind book. You also deserve to sit down with it if you’re curious about any number of other SF&F-adjacent topics: mathematics, pattern recognition, the definition of consciousness, the concepts of recursion (finite and infinite)… but most of all, the way profundity can be made to look like pure play.
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