Why I love Douglas R. Hofstadter [part 1 of many]

As you may know I'm reading Hofstadter's Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern at the moment and I'm loving it more each day. I want to share the awesome, so I will be posting a couple of exerpts from this book in the next couple of days (weeks? I wish I could read faster, but there is much going back and forth and relishing thoughts in between:).

Comments are encouraged!

( How come Truth is such a slippery beast )

I have just finished the chapter on Number Numbness and am currently enjoying Changes in Default Words and Images, Engendered by Rising Consciousness. I will probably quote both tomorrow;) You have been warned!