Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

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ISBN: 9780465026562

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Author	HOFSTADTER DOUG
Pub Date	15/01/1999
Binding	Paperback
Pages	824

Publisher: The Perseus Books Group

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Tutor	2024/2025
Department	Faculty of Science, Engineering and Social Science

Godel, Escher, Bach is a Pulitzer Prize--winning treatise exploring patterns and symbols in the thinking of mathematician Kurt Godel, artist M. C. Escher and composer Johann Sebastian Bach. A groundbreaking book that has set the standard for interdisciplinary writing. A book every thinking reader must have.

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