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Feb. 13th, 2009 10:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogFrom the pages of Damn Interesting:
I love, love things like this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Seraphinianus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_Manuscript
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Oh my god/dess; I just looked more in depth at the Wikipedia article on the Codex Seraphinianus and there's a quote and review by Douglas Hofstadter, who wrote Gödel, Escher, Bach. I feel almost like I felt when I read the Wikipedia article on Raymond Smullyan, who wrote a book of philosophy that is a near dead-on match with my strange world-view, and found that he had done a lot of work as a logician involving refinement of Gödel's incompleteness theorem. These connections between oddities intrigue me. Does it mean something? Smullyan, with his talk about universal synchronicity, would probably respond to that question with a resounding 'maybe'.
I wonder if I can put the Codex on my Amazon wish list; I'd really love to see a copy.
I love, love things like this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Seraphinianus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_Manuscript
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Oh my god/dess; I just looked more in depth at the Wikipedia article on the Codex Seraphinianus and there's a quote and review by Douglas Hofstadter, who wrote Gödel, Escher, Bach. I feel almost like I felt when I read the Wikipedia article on Raymond Smullyan, who wrote a book of philosophy that is a near dead-on match with my strange world-view, and found that he had done a lot of work as a logician involving refinement of Gödel's incompleteness theorem. These connections between oddities intrigue me. Does it mean something? Smullyan, with his talk about universal synchronicity, would probably respond to that question with a resounding 'maybe'.
I wonder if I can put the Codex on my Amazon wish list; I'd really love to see a copy.
