It's a book that keeps building on itself. If you're lost at any point pushing forwards won't help, you need to go back and reground yourself, and try again with the mathematics.

Just read I Am A Strange Loop instead. It's basically the same core concept but explained in a more straight-forward manner.

>>7811893
Do this. It's the same fucking thing but clearer.

>overwhelmed by pop-scientific take on mathematics
>being at this fucking pseudo-intellectual naive phase where literally anything that even so slightly hints at being lelsorandumQuirky, e.g. "rEcUrSiOn" and "lOgiC", seems dazzling
k E k e D o O o

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>>7811990
OK, sperglord.

Just read the fucking book OP. If you don't understand something, research and think about it until you do. Have you never been challenged by a book before? fucks sake.

>>7811800
It's totally worth it. You'll have to read it a couple times but it's designed to be enjoyable on repeated readings.

>>7811800
I always get lost on the music. Music theory is something I have no idea about. I don't have much interest to pursue it either.