An edition of Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (1979)

Gödel, Escher, Bach

An Eternal Golden Braid

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An edition of Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (1979)

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An Eternal Golden Braid

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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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Logics Teoria Do Conhecimento Artificial intelligence Metamathematics Symmetry Mathematics Open Library Staff Picks Symbolic and mathematical Logic Long Now Manual for Civilization Kognitiver Prozess Metamathematik Computer Künstliche Intelligenz Weltbild Simetrâi Reading Level-Grade 7 Reading Level-Grade 9 Reading Level-Grade 8 Reading Level-Grade 11 Reading Level-Grade 10 Reading Level-Grade 12 maths music complexity Goedel, kurt, 1906-1978 Escher, m. c. (maurits cornelis), 1898-1970 Bach, johann sebastian, 1685-1750 Escher, M. C. (Maurits Cornelis), 1898-1972 Gödel, Kurt Matematica Logica Inteligencia Artificial (Computacao) Simetría Inteligencia artificial Metamathematica Mathématiques Symétrie Intelligence artificielle Philosophy Bach, johann sebastian , 1685-1750 Escher, m. c. (maurits cornelis) , 1898-1972 Qa9.8 .h63 1999

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Table of Contents

Overview
Page viii
List of Illustrations
Page xiv
Words of Thanks
Page xix
Part I. GEB
Introduction: A Musico-Logical Offering
Page 3
Three-Part Invention
Page 29
Chapter I. The MU-puzzle
Page 33
Two-Part Invention
Page 43
Chapter II. Meaning and Form in Mathematics
Page 46
Sonata for Unaccompanied Achilles
Page 61
Chapter III. Figure and Ground
Page 64
Contracrostipunctus
Page 75
Chapter IV. Consistency, Completeness, and Geometry
Page 82
Little Harmonic Labyrinth
Page 103
Chapter V. Recursive Structures and Processes
Page 127
Canon by Intervallic Augmentation
Page 153
Chapter VI. The Location of Meaning
Page 158
Chromatic Fantasy, And Feud
Page 177
Chapter VII. The Propositional Calculus
Page 181
Crab Canon
Page 199
Chapter VIII. Typographical Number Theory
Page 204
A Mu Offering
Page 231
Chapter IX. Mumon and Gödel
Page 246
Part II. EGB
Prelude
Page 275
Chapter X. Levels of Description, and Computer Systems
Page 285
...Ant Fugue
Page 311
Chapter XI. Brains and Thoughts
Page 337
English French German Suite
Page 366
Chapter XII. Minds and Thoughts
Page 369
Aria with Diverse Variations
Page 391
Chapter XIII. BlooP and FlooP and GlooP
Page 406
Air on G's String
Page 431
Chapter XIV. On Formally Undecidable Propositions of TNT and Related Systems
Page 438
Birthday Cantatatata
Page 461
Chapter XV. Jumping out of the System
Page 465
Edifying Thoughts of a Tobacco Smoker
Page 480
Chapter XVI. Self-Ref and Self-Rep
Page 495
The Magnificrab, Indeed
Page 549
Chapter XVII. Church, Turing, Tarski, and Others
Page 559
SHRDLU, Toy of Man's Designing
Page 586
Chapter XVIII. Artificial Intelligence: Retrospects
Page 594
Contrafactus
Page 633
Chapter XIX. Artificial Intelligence: Prospects
Page 641
Sloth Canon
Page 681
Chapter XX. Strange Loops, Or Tangled Hierarchies
Page 684
Six-Part Ricercar
Page 720
Notes
Page 743
Bibliography
Page 746
Credits
Page 757
Index
Page 759

Edition Notes

Bibliography: p. 746-756.
Reprint of the ed. published by Basic Books, New York.
Includes index.

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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
510/.1
Library of Congress
QA9.8 .H63 1980

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxi, 777 p. :
Number of pages
777

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL4097086M
ISBN 10
0394745027
LCCN
80011354, 99228026
OCLC/WorldCat
6825781
LibraryThing
5619
Wikidata
Q119714092
Goodreads
150658

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OL716850W

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