"Free Ebooks" Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid PDF
By Douglas R. Hofstadter
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3642“Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled ‘This could change your life.’” –Helen Exley
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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, Bach is a wonderful exploration of fascinating ideas at...