(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...
Preface to GEB's Twentieth-anniversary EditionOverviewList of IllustrationsWords of Thanks--Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden BraidNotesBibliographyCreditsIndex
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...
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...
Una lectura laberíntica, pero intrigante.Me la recomendó una profesora de Psicología del Arte, pero bien me la pudo recomendar cualquier profesor que haya tenido en la vida y habría encontrado como relacionarlo a su tema, estoy segura.Lo que si es que me deja con esa desagradable sensación de que qu...
I've been keeping this bedside and reading devotionally, like some people read the Bible, and "The Basic Laws of Arithmetic" hit me like a bunch of begats. Thought about skimming and skipping ahead, but no matter how far I flipped it felt like being stuck in the Pentateuch, in Leviticus, or Numbers!...
I've been keeping this bedside and reading devotionally, like some people read the Bible, and "The Basic Laws of Arithmetic" hit me like a bunch of begats. Thought about skimming and skipping ahead, but no matter how far I flipped it felt like being stuck in the Pentateuch, in Leviticus, or Numbers!...
from Randall Munroe. Mouseover says: 'This is the reference implementation of the self-referential joke.'------------------------I know, I know, I know. I'm just kidding myself. I'm as likely to read this as a book on string theory. (Please don't. Please don't tell me I have read a book on string th...
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