This book is about the difference between parables and riddles, and between different views and definitions of wisdom and various attitudes towards the possibil

This book is about the difference between parables and riddles, and between different views and definitions of wisdom and various attitudes towards the possibil

While meaning and purpose are often seen as synonymous, this book argues that they sometimes are in opposition, the search for meaning at times suicidal, and li

'What is a self and how can a self come out of inanimate matter?' This is the riddle that drove Douglas Hofstadter to write this extraordinary book. In order to