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portada Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Type
Physical Book
Author
Publisher
Year
1999
Language
English
Pages
824
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
23.4 x 16.5 x 4.6 cm
Weight
1.09 kg.
ISBN
0465026567
ISBN13
9780465026562
Edition No.
0020
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

Douglas R. Hofstadter (Author) · Basic Books · Paperback

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid - Douglas R. Hofstadter

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Synopsis "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid "

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.
Douglas R. Hofstadter
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Douglas R. Hofstadter was born in New York in 1945 and is the son of Robert Hofstadter, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1961. He studied mathematics at Stanford and physics at the University of Oregon. He was a professor of cognitive sciences at the University of Michigan until 1988 and, currently, at Indiana University, where he also directs the Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition. His work Gödel, Escher, Bach (1979) became a spectacular success in the United States shortly after its release, even before receiving the prestigious Pulitzer Prize in 1980 and the American Book Award that same year; readers and critics around the world welcomed the book with identical enthusiasm. Hofstadter has also published The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul (1981), in collaboration with philosopher Daniel C. Dennett, and Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern (1985), among other works, as well as an English translation of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin.
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