Last year I pointed to MIT’s pro­gramme ded­i­cated to Dou­glas Hofstadter’s Gödel, Escher, Bach—the Pulitzer Prize-winning book on cog­ni­tion that defies categorisation.

Just to update you on GEB news; MIT have now pro­duced a series of video lec­tures ded­i­cated to the book. (6 lec­tures, each approx. 1 hour in length.)

(I have a sort of love-hate rela­tion­ship with GEB: I know I’m going to love it, but I hate the fact that for the last 18 months the book’s been star­ing at me, tempt­ing me to pick it up, while I’ve been get­ting through my book ‘backlog’.)