[mrtron]

I like how GEB ties together everything with 'strange loops'.

The concept of how small pieces of something can form into something else entirely, is fascinating. How does a bunch of your cells form into you? How do a bunch of notes from a song form something so grand? How does a collection of 'inanimate' material form something animate?

[rugoso]

Yes that kind of mental-masturbation excites me too ;)

from reading other posts (comments) I've remembered another good book, sort of on the same flavor as the "biological" parts in GEB:

-"Investigations", by Stuart Kauffman

exciting lecture too