Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid - Paperback
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Basic BooksISBN-13:9780465026562ISBN-10:465026567UPC:9780465026562Book Category:Philosophy, Mathematics, ComputersBook Subcategory:Logic, Machine TheorySize:9.20 x 6.50 x 1.80 inchesWeight:2.4Product ID:SCBE8VFMCX
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize A metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll Douglas Hofstadter's book is concerned directly with the nature of "maps" or links between formal systems. However, according to Hofstadter, the formal system that underlies all mental activity transcends the system that supports it. If life can grow out of the formal chemical substrate of the cell, if consciousness can emerge out of a formal system of firing neurons, then so too will computers attain human intelligence. Gödel, Escher, Bach is a wonderful exploration of fascinating ideas at the heart of cognitive science: meaning, reduction, recursion, and much more.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Basic BooksISBN-13:9780465026562ISBN-10:465026567UPC:9780465026562Book Category:Philosophy, Mathematics, ComputersBook Subcategory:Logic, Machine TheorySize:9.20 x 6.50 x 1.80 inchesWeight:2.4Product ID:SCBE8VFMCX
Douglas R. Hofstadter is College of Arts and Sciences Professor of Cognitive Science and Computer Science at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he also directs the Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition. He is the author or co-author of nine books, including I Am a Strange Loop and Surfaces and Essences, and has contributed to ten more. He lives in Bloomington.
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20th Anniversary Edition
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