Gödel, Escher, Bach : An Eternal Golden Braid

English

ISBN: 0465026567

EAN: 9780465026562

Category: Music / Genres & Styles / Classical/Biography & Autobiography / Science & Technology/

Publisher: Basic Books

Release Date: 01/31/1999

Synopsis: 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. Godel Escher and Bach is a wonderful exploration of fascinating ideas at the heart of cognitive science: meaning, reduction, recursion, and much more.

Awards: Pulitzer Prize – null 

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Gödel, Escher, Bach : An Eternal Golden Braid

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Paperback

Edition: 20

Height: 1.69 inches

Width: 6.5 inches

Length: 9.25 inches

Weight: 44.9 oz

Pages: 832