Gödel, Escher, Bach An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
And lastly, as for that soul-searching dialogue in which the Author and God are summoned up by Achilles and company to face the ...
But let's not forget Jacqueline and Bob! Although they could simply have bludgeoned their way through the problem by inventing a ...
All I could do was chuckle, and throw my hands up in bewilderment at these Tati-esque vacarmes de monsieur Houlou. Somehow, this ...
existence: our deep and almost ineradicable sense of possessing a unique "I"-ness transcending our physical bodies and mysteriou ...
My Subsequent Intellectual Path: Decade II As I said above, writing, though crucial, was not my only intellectual focus; researc ...
intrinsically untranslatable; what it means to translate nonsense passages from one language to another; the absurdity of suppos ...
be confused with glib technological glitz and surreal futuristic promises. Not that GEB had those either, but many people seemed ...
pioneering artificial-intelligence program Hearsay II, whose very subtle architecture started exerting, only a year or two after ...
Contents Preface to GEB's Twentieth-anniversary Edition Overview List of Illustrations Words of Thanks Part I: GEB P-l VtU XlV x ...
Part II: EGB Prelude... 275 Chapter X: Levels of Description, and Computer Systems 285 ... Ant Fugue 311 Chapter XI: Brains and ...
Overview Part I: GEB Introduction: A Musico-Logical Offering. The book opens with the story of Bach's Musical Offering. Bach mad ...
contexts-e.g., Escher's art. The Dialogue itself forms an example of the distinc- tion, since Achilles' lines form a "figure", a ...
of whether there exist rules for the usage of the word "and". This Dialogue has much in common with the Dialogue by Lewis Carrol ...
· .. Ant Fugue. An imitation of a musical fugue: each voice enters with the same statement. The theme-holism versus reductionism ...
Birthday Cantatatata. " In which Achilles cannot convince the wily and skeptical Tortoise that today is his (Achilles') birthday ...
Contrafactus. About how we unconsciously organize our thoughts so that we can imagine hypothetical variants on the real world al ...
List of Illustrations Cover: A "GEB" and an "EGB" trip-let suspended in space, casting their symbolic shadows on three planes th ...
Cretan Labyrinth. 119 The structure of the Dialogue Little Harmonic Labyrinth. 129 Recursive Transition Networks for ORNATE NOU ...
Phot6 of an ant bridge (de Fourmi, Lierre). 334 64. \'. HOLISM-REDUCTIONISM "propeller". 335 65. Schematic drawing of a neuron. ...
Srinivasa Ramanujan and one of his strange Indian melodies. 563 Isomorphisms connecting natural numbers, calculators, and human ...
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