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I can't remember if it was via reading Douglas Hofstadter, Daniel Dennett, William Poundstone (or someone writing in a similar vein) that I came across Smullyan but his name cropped up in many things that have captivated me over the years.

This dialogue is absolutely marvellous: http://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/godTao...




It might have been Hofstadter and Dennett's "The Mind's I" which includes both "Is God a Taoist?" and "An Unfortunate Dualist"


Yep. That was it. I still have a copy. Amazing book - even if I'm not sure I agree with either of them on the nature of consciousness any more.




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