GODEL, ESCHER, BACH
Author: Douglas R. Hofstadter
ISBN: 978-0465026562
Price: Rs. 1659.00 • ✓ 100% Genuine Publisher Edition
Book Overview
About This BookWinner of the Pulitzer PrizeA metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis CarrollDouglas 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. Read moreBook DetailsAuthor: Douglas R. HofstadterPublisher: Basic Books; Anniversary edition (5 February 1999)Format: Paperback – 5 February 1999Language: EnglishPages: 824ISBN: 978-0465026562Dimensions: 16.51 x 4.83 x 23.5 cmWeight: 1 kg 50 g
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About the Author
Douglas R. Hofstadter is College of Arts and Sciences Professor of Cognitive Science and Computer Science at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he also directs the Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition.
Book Specifications & Quick Facts
- Reading Level
- General / Adult
- Language & Format
- English • Paperback – 5 February 1999
- ISBN Reference
- 978-0465026562
- Publisher
- Basic Books
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About This BookWinner of the Pulitzer PrizeA metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis CarrollDouglas 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...
Who should read this book?
Valuable for university students, educators, and scholars seeking authoritative reference material and structured subject mastery.
Why Readers Pick This Edition
- You’ll love this book if you enjoy ideas that stretch your mind and refuse to stay in one discipline. Gödel, Escher, Bach weaves logic, art, music, and computer science into a playful yet profound exploration of how intelligence and consciousness arise. As a Pulitzer Prize–winning classic, it rewards slow, curious reading, inviting you to think differently about minds, machines, and meaning. It’s not just a book you read—it’s one you return to, again and again, as a premium intellectual companion.
- Published by Basic Books.
- Language: English.
- Page count: 824.
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About This BookWinner of the Pulitzer PrizeA metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis CarrollDouglas 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. Read...
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