Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

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 and Bach is a wonderful exploration of fascinating ideas at the heart of cognitive science: meaning, reduction, recursion, and much more.

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jul-29-2009; Worth every hour!; "want a brain stretcher? this very interesting format requires time and dedication, but it is well worth the commitment. Hofstadter explores the beauty of patterns and self referential systems throughout this very large volume. In...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jul-23-2009; Genius; I first picked up this book as a pretentious college freshman and went in head first thinking that I would get some sort of badge from completing this immense Pulitzer Prize winning novel in the mathematic community. Nearly 20 years...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jul-22-2009; reconciling the software of the mind with the hardware of brain; This book has a preface by the author. After twenty (20) or so pages, I was thinking, "Can I understand what he wrote about in the rest of this book?" but I persevered and read the whole book. This book is intense, like any...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: May-15-2009; Great, Excellent, Breathtaking; Hofstadter takes some very difficult concepts in logic, mathematics, and computing and makes them much more than understandable - he makes them enjoyable. Self-reference, completeness, paradox, artificial intelligence - if you have the...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jul-29-2009; Worth every hour!; "want a brain stretcher? this very interesting format requires time and dedication, but it is well worth the commitment. Hofstadter explores the beauty of patterns and self referential systems throughout this very large volume. In...; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jul-19-2006; Hofstadter uses many words, says little; I finally finished "Gödel, Escher, Bach" the other day. Does this book deserve a review? Sure, it's over 700 pages long and took me more than a month to read. Not because it was too complicated or difficult but because of my lack of...; read full review | report as inappropriate

2/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Oct-14-2008; Not my kind of philosophy; This book is boring. It doesn't really tell you anything, kind of "all form, no substance". A cloud of a book.I approached it a few times in the past, seeing it on top of many bestseller charts, but each time got scared away by apparent...; read full review | report as inappropriate