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Gdel, Escher, Bach is a Pulitzer Prizewinning treatise
exploring patterns and symbols in the thinking of mathematician
Kurt Gdel, artist M. C. Escher and composer Johann Sebastian Bach.
A groundbreaking book that has set the standard for
interdisciplinary writing. A book every thinking reader must have..
Douglas Hofstadters 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. Gdel Escher and Bach is a
wonderful exploration of fascinating ideas at the heart of
cognitive science: meaning, reduction, recursion, and much
more.
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Douglas R. Hofstadter is College Professor of Cognitive
Science and Computer Science at Indiana University, Bloomington,
Indiana. His previous books are the Pulitzer Prizewinning G?del,
Escher, Bach; Metamagical Themas, The Mind’s I, Fluid Concepts and
Creative Analogies, Le Ton Beau de Marot, and Eugene Onegin.
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