Gödel, Escher, Bach
an Eternal Golden Braid
About this book
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.
Subjects
- artificial intelligence
- complexity
- computer
- escher, m. c. (maurits cornelis), 1898-1970
- escher, m. c. (maurits cornelis) , 1898-1972
- escher, m. c. (maurits cornelis), 1898-1972
- gödel, kurt
- goedel, kurt, 1906-1978
- inteligencia artificial
- inteligencia artificial (computacao)
- intelligence artificielle
- kognitiver prozess
- künstliche intelligenz
- logica
- logics
- long now manual for civilization
- matematica
- mathematics
- mathématiques
- maths
- metamathematica
- metamathematics
- metamathematik
- music
- open library staff picks
- philosophy
- qa9.8 .h63 1999
- reading level-grade 10
- reading level-grade 11
- reading level-grade 12
- reading level-grade 7
- reading level-grade 8
- reading level-grade 9
- simetrâi
- simetría
- symbolic and mathematical logic
- symétrie
- symmetry
- teoria do conhecimento
- weltbild