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Gödel, Escher, Bach

An Eternal Golden Braid

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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.

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Edition Notes

Bibliography: p. 746-756.
Includes index.

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New York, USA

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
510/.1
Library of Congress
QA9.8 .H63

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
xxi, 777 p. :
Number of pages
777

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OL4731539M
Internet Archive
godelescherbach00doug
ISBN 10
0465026850
LCCN
78019943
Library Thing
5619
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864668

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