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Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

Hofstadter, Douglas R.

Paperback

FictionPhilosophyGeneral Computers

Publisher Price: $24.99

ISBN10: 0465026567
ISBN13: 9780465026562
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: Feb 5 1999
Pages: 824
Weight: 2.40
Height: 1.80 Width: 6.50 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award

A metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll

Every few decades an unknown author brings out a book of such depth, charity, range, wit, beauty, and originality that it is recognized at once as a major literary event. This is such a work. --Scientific American

GEB is a unique insight into the nature of I, self, soul, and consciousness, centered on a notion that its youthful author dubbed strange loop, inspired by the twisty self-referential construction invented by logician Kurt Gödel, whereby a sentence asserts its own unprovability. The book's chapters alternate with Bach-like contrapuntal dialogues between whimsical characters (especially Achilles and the Tortoise), and each dialogue's intricate structure exemplifies the notion being discussed in it, thus creating indirect self-reference (a fact unsuspected by the characters). The book, filled with analogies, wordplay, humor, and mind-twisting prints by M. C. Escher, has inspired generations of bright students to study cognitive science and the philosophy of mind.

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