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Godel, Escher, Bach - An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback, Anniversary) Loot Price: R452
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Godel, Escher, Bach - An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback, Anniversary)

Douglas R. Hofstadter

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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. Goedel, 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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Imprint: BasicBooks
Country of origin: United States
Release date: February 1999
First published: February 1999
Authors: Douglas R. Hofstadter
Dimensions: 236 x 166 x 41mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 777
Edition: Anniversary
ISBN-13: 978-0-465-02656-2
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Cognition & cognitive psychology > General
LSN: 0-465-02656-7
Barcode: 9780465026562

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