Description: 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. Author: Douglas R. Hofstadter Publisher: Basic Books Published: Book and Mortar Record Store Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid -- Douglas R. Hofstadter 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. Author: Douglas R. Hofstadter Publisher: Basic Books Published: 02/05/1999 Pages: 824 Binding Type: Paperback Weight: 2.40lbs Size: 9.20h x 6.50w x 1.80d ISBN: 9780465026562 About the Author Douglas R. Hofstadter is College of Arts and Sciences Professor of Cognitive Science and Computer Science at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he also directs the Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition.
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Genre 1: Books,Subjects,Computers & Technology,Computer Science,AI & Machi
Label: Basic Books
Artist: Hofstadter, Douglas R
Album: Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Edition: 20
Book Title: Godel, Escher, Bach : an Eternal Golden Braid
Number of Pages: 824 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Basic Books
Topic: Machine Theory, Individual Artists / General, Genres & Styles / Classical, General, Logic, Science & Technology
Publication Year: 1999
Item Height: 1.9 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Mathematics, Music, Art, Philosophy, Computers, Biography & Autobiography
Item Weight: 37.8 Oz
Author: Douglas R. Hofstadter
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Width: 6.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback