Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
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By Hofstadter Douglas R
Paperback – English
ISBN: 0465026567
EAN: 9780465026562
Publisher: BASIC BOOKS
Publication Date: 05/02/1999
Pages: 824
Dimension: 23.37cm x 16.51cm x 4.57cm
Age Group: NA to NA
Grades: Not Applicable to Not Applicable
Lexile Level: 1150
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About Author: Hofstadter Douglas R
Douglas R. Hofstadter is College of Arts and Sciences Professor of computer science and cognitive science at Indiana University and author of the Pulitzer-prize winning “G?del, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid”.
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Philosophy – Machine Theory
Philosophy – Logic
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By Hofstadter Douglas R
Paperback – English
This groundbreaking Pulitzer Prize-winning book sets the standard for interdisciplinary writing, exploring the patterns and symbols in the thinking of mathematician Kurt Godel, artist M.C. Escher, and composer Johann Sebastian Bach. …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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