Gödel, Escher, Bach
By Douglas R. Hofstadter
- Release Date: 2025-02-08
- Genre: Mathematics
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.
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1By capt_hendersonIf you want to waste seven bucks buy this version of the book. It’s ridden with typos and errors which make it practically unreadable.Unreadable
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1By IntrepidlemonLots of typos in this text. You would think someone edited it to charge money for it. Very confusing to read.
