Gödel, Escher, Bach An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter

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• GODEL, ESCHER, BACH: an Eternal Golden Braid ...

• GODEL, ESCHER, BACH: an Eternal Golden Braid Douglas R. Hofstadter B BOOKS A Member of the Perseus Books Group ...

Preface to the Twentieth-anniversary Edition copyright © 1999 Douglas R. Hofstadter Copyright © 1979 by Basic Books, Inc. All ri ...

To M. and D. ...

Preface to GEB's Twentieth-anniversary Edition SO WHAT IS this book, GOdel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid - usually know ...

In a word, GEB is a very personal attempt to say how it is that animate beings can come out of inanimate matter. What is a self, ...

thing has to be said straight off: the G6delian strange loop that arises in formal systems in mathematics (i.e., collections of ...

Such people feel that some kind of "semantic magic" takes place only inside our "teetering bulbs", somewhere behind pairs of eye ...

For the French, the enemy was Germany; for Russell, it was self-reference. Russell believed that for a mathematical system to be ...

Not too surprisingly, revolutionary mathematical and philosophical consequences tumbled out of Godel's sudden revelation that se ...

Small-souled Men, Beware! I can't help but recall, at this point, a horribly elitist but very droll remark by one of my favorite ...

I personally cannot imagine that consciousness will be fully understood without reference to Godelian strange loops or level-cro ...

Mter crossing the beautiful Cascades and eastern Oregon's desert, I wound up in Moscow, Idaho. Since Quicksilver had a little en ...

areas, and the trick worked. Twenty-five souls were snagged, and all were enthusiastic. I vividly remember the lovely blossoms I ...

The long and the short of it is that I eventually decided - but this took many months - that the optimal structure would be a st ...

At Stanford, my erstwhile "pamphlet" bloomed. It was rewritten from start to finish, because I felt that my earlier drafts, thou ...

The winter of 1977-78 was so severe that Indiana University, where I was now a fledgling assistant professor, ran out of coal fo ...

I couldn't believe it. How in the world had this happened? The simple answer left me feeling so angry and helpless: the aging ro ...

of one's sense of what is a "normal" human being and what is an "exception", and I welcomed this new perspective. But I was not ...