Godel, Escher, Bach Textbook

Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

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Categories: 1964-1983->Sciences->National Book Award, Artificial intelligence, Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750). Contributors: Douglas R. Hofstadter - Author. Format: Paperback
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Godel, Escher, Bach : Paperback : Penguin Books Ltd : 9780140289206 : 0140289208 : 01 Dec 2000 : 'What is a self, and how can a self come out of inaminate matter?' This book examines this riddle. Linking together the music of JS Bach, the graphic art of Escher and the mathematical theorems of Godel, as well as ideas drawn from logic, biology, psychology, physics and linguistics, it reveals the mysteries of human thought processes.

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. Godel Escher and Bach is a wonderful exploration of fascinating ideas at the heart of cognitive science: meaning, reduction, recursion, and much more.

Categories: Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750), Gödel, Kurt, Escher, MC (Maurits Cornelis) (1898-1972). Contributors: Douglas R. Hofstadter - Author. Format: Paperback

Godel, Escher, Bach Textbook