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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
Godel, Escher, Bach is a Pulitzer Prizewinning 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.. Douglas Hofstadters 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 and Bach is a wonderful exploration of fascinating ideas at the heart of cognitive science: meaning, reduction, recursion, and much more.
Douglas R. Hofstadter is a College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science and Comparative Literature at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he also directs the Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition. He is also the author of The Mind's I (with Daniel Dennett), Metamagical Themas, Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies, Le Ton beau de Marot, a verse translation of Pushkin's novel in verse Eugene Onegin, I Am a Strange Loop, Translator Trader, and Surfaces and Essences (with Emmanuel Sander).
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
Godel, Escher, Bach is a Pulitzer Prizewinning 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.. Douglas Hofstadters 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 and Bach is a wonderful exploration of fascinating ideas at the heart of cognitive science: meaning, reduction, recursion, and much more.
Douglas R. Hofstadter is a College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science and Comparative Literature at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he also directs the Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition. He is also the author of The Mind's I (with Daniel Dennett), Metamagical Themas, Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies, Le Ton beau de Marot, a verse translation of Pushkin's novel in verse Eugene Onegin, I Am a Strange Loop, Translator Trader, and Surfaces and Essences (with Emmanuel Sander).
