Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
@TRIERTIUM @EduardFiedler Thank you for all you do. Fyi, your address just named what I did not know to call a religious awakening, the prevenient grace of being led through the pointing-beyond providentially built into the architecture of Hofstadter's 'Godel, Escher, Bach'. That initiation, unconscious.
Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 13 Nov 2024
@HootenWilson What a lovely prompt. At the time (an agnostic, anti-religious zealot) I couldn't see it, but it was secular science that originally lit the flame of numinosity in me. As such, perhaps my intellectual life first 'awakened' reading Hofstadter on Godel and the enigma of paradox.
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Photo of Douglas Hofstadter's book, 'Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid'