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an eternal golden braid

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Gödel, Escher, Bach

an eternal golden braid

20th anniversary ed.
  • 4.2 (60 ratings) ·
  • 438 Want to read
  • 28 Currently reading
  • 72 Have read

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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Publisher
Basic Books
Language
English
Pages
777

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Cover of: Gödel, Escher, Bach
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an eternal golden braid
2000, Penguin
in English - 20th-anniversary ed.
Cover of: Gödel, Escher, Bach
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an eternal golden braid
1999, Basic Books
in English - 20th anniversary ed.
Cover of: Gödel, Escher, Bach
Gödel, Escher, Bach: ein Endloses Geflochtenes Band.
January 1, 1991, Dtv
Paperback in German
Cover of: Godel, Escher, Bach
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
May 14, 1989, Vintage
in English
Cover of: Gödel, Escher, Bach
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
1980, Vintage Books
in English - 1st Vintage Books ed.
Cover of: Gödel, Escher, Bach
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an eternal golden braid
1980, Penguin
in English
Cover of: Gödel, Escher, Bach
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
1979, Basic Books
Hardcover in English
Cover of: Gödel, Escher, Bach
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an eternal goldenbraid
1979, Basic Books
in English

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 746-756) and index.

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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
510/.1
Library of Congress
QA9.8 .H63 1999

The Physical Object

Pagination
23, vi-xxi, 777 p. :
Number of pages
777

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL85373M
Internet Archive
gdelescherbachet00hofs_355
ISBN 10
0394756827, 0465026567
LCCN
99192374
Library Thing
5619
Goodreads
24113
248188

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