Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Hofstadter, Douglas R.
ISBN 10: 0465026850 ISBN 13: 9780465026852
Published by Basic Books, 1979
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hardcover, fine, clean, unmarked pages, clean dust jacket, solid binding, first edition, 1st printing, inscribed by author to his mentor Frank Prosser who both worked at Indiana U. price is still in tact on DJ, Seller Inventory # E152 05022025
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Douglas Hofstadters 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.
About the Author: Douglas Hofstadter is professor of computer science and cognitive science at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.
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Title: Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication Date: 1979
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
Edition: 1st Edition
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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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Gödel, Escher, Bach an Eternal Golden Braid
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