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I thought GED was brilliant. I loved being able to walk through a proof of the Incompleteness Theorem whilst also pondering music and the notion of consciousness.
It does seem to me that the notion that consciousness is analogous in some way to recursion is quite profound. "We are conscious because we can reason about ourselves." is a recursive statement.
One thing that annoyed me about it: he uses the concept of a quine (a self referential statement) a lot, but when I tried to use it a game of scrabble it was disallowed. Gutted.