Year: 1999
Scanned, Bookmarked, not paginated PDF file
Language: English
Publisher: Basic Books
Pages: 821
ISBN: 0465026567, 9780465026562
Book Description:
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