Gödel, Escher, Bach
An Eternal Golden Braid
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2.3 • 9 Ratings
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- $7.99
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Publisher Description
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
A metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll
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.
Customer Reviews
Poor text quality
The book is not very readable due to typos and stylistic choices are broken.
Not good
Terrible OCR and layout. Is this even a legitimate edition?
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If you want to waste seven bucks buy this version of the book. It’s ridden with typos and errors which make it practically unreadable.