Douglas R. Hofstadter

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.

An Eternal Golden Braid

Godel, Escher, Bach

An original, endlessly thought-provoking, and controversial look at the nature of consciousness and identity argues that the key to understanding selves and consciousness is the "strange loop," a special kind of abstract feedback loop inhabiting our brains.

I Am a Strange Loop

Ernest Nagel

James R. Newman

"In Godel's Proof, Ernest Nagel and James Newman provide a readable and non-technical explanation for both scholars and non-specialists of the main ideas and broad implications of Godel's discovery. First published in 1958 and in print continuously in ten languages, this highly popular, seminal work offers every educated person with an interest in mathematics, logic, and philosophy the opportunity to understand a previously difficult and inaccessible subject."--BOOK JACKET.

Gdel's Proof

Analyzes the various translations of an obscure French poem to show the endless complexity of humans and their languages

In Praise of the Music of Language

Le Ton Beau de Marot

Gödel, Escher, Bach

Gödel, Escher, Bach : an eternal golden braid ; [a metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll]

Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies

Daniel Clement Dennett

Essays from some of the 20th century's greatest thinkers explore topics as diverse as artificial intelligence, evolution, science fiction, philosophy, reductionism, and consciousness, presenting a variety of conflicting visions of the self and the soul. Illustrations.

Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul

The Mind's I

Godel, Escher, Bach - Bir Ebedi Gokce Belik

Andrew Hodges

"It is only a slight exaggeration to say that the British mathematician Alan Turing (1912-1954) saved the Allies from the Nazis, invented the computer and artificial intelligence, and anticipated gay liberation by decades--all before his suicide at age forty-one. This New York Times?bestselling biography of the founder of computer science, with a new preface by the author that addresses Turing?s royal pardon in 2013, is the definitive account of an extraordinary mind and life."--Amazon.com.

The Enigma

Alan Turing

Hofstadter's collection of quirky essays is unified by its primary concern: to examine the way people perceive and think.

Questing For The Essence Of Mind And Pattern

Metamagical Themas

Fluid Analogies Research Group

über Analogie und Kreativität

Die FARGonauten

Speels overzicht van de moderne wiskunde.

een eeuwige gouden band

Godel, Escher, Bach / druk 1

Hosftadter and his colleagues at The Fluid Analogies Research Group have developed computer models that help describe and explain human discovery, creation and analogical thought. The key issue of perception is investigated through the exploration of playful anagrams, number puzzles, word play and fanciful alphabetical styles, and the result is a survey of cognitive processes. This text presents the results.

Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought

Александр Сергеевич Пушкин

In time for the bicentennial of Pushkin's birth comes a new translation of his classic novel. Douglas R. Hofstadter is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Godel, Escher, Bach".

Douglas R. Hofstadter

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