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Synopsis
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 and Bach is a wonderful exploration of fascinating ideas at the heart of cognitive science: meaning, reduction, recursion, and much more.
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Douglas Hofstadter is professor of computer science and cognitive science at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.
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Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
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Godel, Escher, Bach
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Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid -- A Metaphorical Fugue on Minds and Machines in the Spirit of Lewis Carroll
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Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. 19th printing. Near fine in very good jacket. Jacket spine a bit faded, faint crease to front jacket corner. Binding tight, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 1979 Hard Cover. xxi, 777 pp. "Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this book applies Godel's seminal contribution to modern mathematics to the study of the human mind and the development of artificial intelligence." Includes: Overview; List of Illustrations; Words of Thanks; GEB; Introduction: A Musico-Logical Offering; The MU-puzzle; Meaning and Form in Mathematics; Figure and Ground; Consistency, Completeness, and Geometry; Recursive Structures and Processes; Location of Meaning; Propositional Calculus; Typographical Number Theory; Mumon and Godel; Levels of Description, and Computer Systems; Brains and Thoughts; Minds and Thoughts; BlooP and FlooP and GlooP; On the Formally Undecidable Propositions of TNT and Related Systems; Jumping out of the System; Self-Ref and Self-Rep; Church, Turing, Tarski, and Others; Artificial Intelligence: Retrospects; Artificial Intelligence: Prospects; Strange Loops, or Tangled Hierarchies; Notes; Bibliography; Credits; Index. Seller Inventory # 2353686
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Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
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ISBN 10: 0465026850
ISBN 13: 9780465026852
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Godel, Escher, Bach : An Eternal Golden Braid
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Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
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Godel, Escher, Bach
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Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
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ISBN 10: 0465026850
ISBN 13: 9780465026852
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