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Gödel, Escher, Bach : an eternal golden braid, Douglas R. Hofstadter

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Summary
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
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Edition
20th anniversary ed.
Extent
23, vi-xxi, 777 pages
Contents
  • Part I: GEB. Introduction: A musico-logical offering (Three-part invention) ; The MU-puzzle (Two-part invention) ; Meaning and form in mathematics (Sonata for unaccompanied Achilles) ; Figure and ground (Contracrostipunctus) ; Consistency, completeness, and geometry (Little harmonic labyrinth) ; Recursive structures and processes Canon by intervallic augmentation) ; The location of meaning Chromatic fantasy, and feud) ; The propositional calculus Crab canon) ; Typographical number theory (A Mu offering) ; Mumon and Godel
  • Part II: EGB. Levels of description and computer systems (... Ant fugue) ; Brains and thoughts (English French German suite) ; Minds and thoughts (Aria with diverse variations) ; BlooP and flooP and glooP (Air on G's string) ; On formally undecidable propositions of TNT and related systems (Birthday cantatatata) ; Jumping out of the system (Edifying thoughts of a tobacco smoker) ; Self-ref and self-rep (The magnificrab, indeed) ; Church, Turing, Tarski, and others (SHRDLU, toy of man's designing) ; Artificial intelligence : retrospects (Contrafactus) ; Artificial intelligence : prospects (Sloth canon) ; Strange loops, or tangled hierarchies (Six-part ricercar)
Isbn
9780394756820
Instance
Label
Gödel, Escher, Bach : an eternal golden braid
Title
Gödel, Escher, Bach
Title remainder
an eternal golden braid
Statement of responsibility
Douglas R. Hofstadter
Title variation
Eternal golden braid
Creator
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
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
Awards note
Pulitzer Prize winner for nonfiction 1980.
Cataloging source
DLC
http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
1945-
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Hofstadter, Douglas R.
Dewey number
510/.1
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
QA9.8
LC item number
.H63 1999
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Bach, Johann Sebastian
  • Escher, M. C.
  • Gödel, Kurt
  • Metamathematics
  • Symmetry
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Metamatemática
  • Simetria
  • Inteligência artificial
Label
Gödel, Escher, Bach : an eternal golden braid, Douglas R. Hofstadter
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Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 746-756) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Part I: GEB. Introduction: A musico-logical offering (Three-part invention) ; The MU-puzzle (Two-part invention) ; Meaning and form in mathematics (Sonata for unaccompanied Achilles) ; Figure and ground (Contracrostipunctus) ; Consistency, completeness, and geometry (Little harmonic labyrinth) ; Recursive structures and processes Canon by intervallic augmentation) ; The location of meaning Chromatic fantasy, and feud) ; The propositional calculus Crab canon) ; Typographical number theory (A Mu offering) ; Mumon and Godel -- Part II: EGB. Levels of description and computer systems (... Ant fugue) ; Brains and thoughts (English French German suite) ; Minds and thoughts (Aria with diverse variations) ; BlooP and flooP and glooP (Air on G's string) ; On formally undecidable propositions of TNT and related systems (Birthday cantatatata) ; Jumping out of the system (Edifying thoughts of a tobacco smoker) ; Self-ref and self-rep (The magnificrab, indeed) ; Church, Turing, Tarski, and others (SHRDLU, toy of man's designing) ; Artificial intelligence : retrospects (Contrafactus) ; Artificial intelligence : prospects (Sloth canon) ; Strange loops, or tangled hierarchies (Six-part ricercar)
Control code
ocm40724766
Dimensions
23 cm
Edition
20th anniversary ed.
Extent
23, vi-xxi, 777 pages
Isbn
9780394756820
Lccn
99192374
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
(OCoLC)40724766
Label
Gödel, Escher, Bach : an eternal golden braid, Douglas R. Hofstadter
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 746-756) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Part I: GEB. Introduction: A musico-logical offering (Three-part invention) ; The MU-puzzle (Two-part invention) ; Meaning and form in mathematics (Sonata for unaccompanied Achilles) ; Figure and ground (Contracrostipunctus) ; Consistency, completeness, and geometry (Little harmonic labyrinth) ; Recursive structures and processes Canon by intervallic augmentation) ; The location of meaning Chromatic fantasy, and feud) ; The propositional calculus Crab canon) ; Typographical number theory (A Mu offering) ; Mumon and Godel -- Part II: EGB. Levels of description and computer systems (... Ant fugue) ; Brains and thoughts (English French German suite) ; Minds and thoughts (Aria with diverse variations) ; BlooP and flooP and glooP (Air on G's string) ; On formally undecidable propositions of TNT and related systems (Birthday cantatatata) ; Jumping out of the system (Edifying thoughts of a tobacco smoker) ; Self-ref and self-rep (The magnificrab, indeed) ; Church, Turing, Tarski, and others (SHRDLU, toy of man's designing) ; Artificial intelligence : retrospects (Contrafactus) ; Artificial intelligence : prospects (Sloth canon) ; Strange loops, or tangled hierarchies (Six-part ricercar)
Control code
ocm40724766
Dimensions
23 cm
Edition
20th anniversary ed.
Extent
23, vi-xxi, 777 pages
Isbn
9780394756820
Lccn
99192374
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
(OCoLC)40724766

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