In some ways a dangerous book. GEB is a real tour-de-force exploration of computing, art, and cognition. This page works best with JavaScript. 18 offers from $12.07. Fulfilment by Amazon (FBA) is a service we offer sellers that lets them store their products in Amazon's fulfilment centres, and we directly pack, ship, and provide customer service for these products. Please try your request again later. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Gödel, Escher, Bach: Un eterno y grácil bucle (Divulgación) (Spanish Edition) by Douglas R. Hofstadter , Mario Arnaldo Usabiaga Bandizzi , et al.
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Please try again. The Fallacy Detective: Thirty-Eight Lessons on How to Recognize Bad Reasoning. The Fallacy Detective: Thirty-Eight Lessons on How to Recognize Bad Reasoning. I look forward to it enormously. Buy Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (20th anniversary edition with a new preface by the author) 20Anniversary Ed by Hofstadter, Douglas R (ISBN: 9780140289206) from Amazon's Book Store. Please try again.
Nature never does fall or ever will fall into the sort of infinite regress, serpent eats its tail &c. that the author finds so sexy. Amazon Business: For business-only pricing, quantity discounts and FREE Shipping. Next. Unable to add item to Wish List. It is not just some random scribbling, it has a detailed structure and the blending on Music, Mathematics, and Art which also happens to be my most favorite subjects. It has taken 5 months for me to complete this book, wondering how long it would have taken Hofstadter to complete this beast. Prime members enjoy Free Two-Day Shipping, Free Same-Day or One-Day Delivery to select areas, Prime Video, Prime Music, Prime Reading, and more.
This book contains a lot of different perspectives on the problem so if you are interested in a more concise reading for this philosophy, you may want to read "I am a strange loop" first. What a wonderful book! And AI has moved on, of course, with mixed results. Mind-Expanding. Douglas R. Hofstadter: Godel, Escher, Bach : An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback - Anniv. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 May 2019. Trying to understand and follow this book is a brain twister. "Godel, Escher, Back" contains many ideas in different areas. I've always been fascinated in strange loops but terrible at maths, and so my mind tends to glaze over anything that veers into algebra - but he keeps it grounded in normal language for the layman to understand. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed.
Learn more about the program. I read a lot of philosophy, psycology and the author style make the reading very heavy on a subject that is not easy. Five stars. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. The book predicted that computers probably won't ever beat humans in chess, though Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov in 1997. However, according to Hofstadter, the formal system that underlies all mental activity transcends the system that supports it. This review comes after my second attempt to tackle GEB, both of which were thwarted by the author's insufferable style. In order to navigate out of this carousel, please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading.
A worthwhile project for any scientific thinker. The Mind's I: Fantasies And Reflections On Self & Soul, Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software, How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method, Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking. Add all three to Cart. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. A book that caused a bit of a sensation when first appeared but seems quite dated now apart from being completely on the wrong lines philosophically as far as I am concerned.
Allusions to Bach's music (centering on his Musical Offering) and Escher's continually paradoxical artwork are plentiful here. A book that caused a bit of a sensation when first appeared but seems quite dated now apart from being completely on the wrong lines philosophically as far as I am concerned. Previous page of related Sponsored Products. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. The world has moved on since 1979, of course. No way can I yet give a blow by blow account of the book itself.
by Hofstadter, D. (ISBN: 9780394745022) from Amazon's Book Store. Don't skip the forward for the republished version as it helps to know what his main argument is (because he says his book is often misunderstood), and it provides a background to take in the rest of the book. Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid: Hofstadter, Douglas: 9780394745022: Books - Amazon.ca ); 1999 Edition, Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking, On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems (Dover Books on Mathematics), Part of: Dover Books on Mathematics (210 Books), The Fallacy Detective: Thirty-Eight Lessons on How to Recognize Bad Reasoning, Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern.
Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. Twenty years after it topped the bestseller charts, Douglas R. Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid is still something of a marvel. He puts me off Zen rather than attracts me to it and Escher's drawings though clever are terrifying. For an intelligent review, ask me again in around 5 years' time.
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