Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid - Douglas R. Hofstadter • BookLikes (ISBN:0394756827)

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

by: Douglas R. Hofstadter (author)

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this book applies Godel's seminal contribution to modern mathematics to the study of the human mind and the development of artificial intelligence.

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Format: paperback

ISBN: 9780394756820 (0394756827)

Publish date: May 14th 1989

Publisher: Vintage

Pages no: 777

Edition language: English

Category:

Non Fiction, History, Computer Science, Science, Popular Science, Art, Philosophy, Psychology, Music, Mathematics

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Musings/Träumereien/Devaneios rated it

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http://antao.booklikes.com Musings/Träumereien/Devaneios 3.0 Intelligence: "Gödel, Escher, Bach: The Eternal Golden Braid" by Douglas R. Hofstadter

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(Original Review, 1980-09-24)Before we ask "Are dolphins intelligent?" we must ask "What is intelligence?" Doug Hofstadter, in his book "Gödel, Escher, Bach: The Eternal Golden Braid", presents a way of looking at intelligence that is not as restrictive as most current definitions. (I highly recomme...

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Edward rated it

9 years ago

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text Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

Preface to GEB's Twentieth-anniversary EditionOverviewList of IllustrationsWords of Thanks--Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden BraidNotesBibliographyCreditsIndex

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Forrest Aguirre, in the Leaves rated it

11 years ago

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If I were clever enough, I would write this review as a fugue. This is the formal structure that Hofstadter uses throughoutGödel, Escher, Bach. Whether the whole book is a fugue, I'm not smart enough to tell. But the fugue is used as a metaphor for layers of brain activity, thoughts, superimposed ov...

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This is a book of brilliant insights separated by hundreds of pages of tangents. It touches on a ridiculous number of topics: number theory, music theory, fugues, art, physics, linguistics, literature, cognition, calculus, logic, programming, recursion, molecular biology, Zen, and much more. Many of...

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