First published in 1979, this is a genuine interdisciplinary work of nonfiction, with dozens of historical references and subtexts. Critics and reviewers have summed up its meaning in varying ways, yet consistently with praise. A mixture of art, philosophy, music, math, technology, and cognitive science, the book's title only reflects one aspect ...
The definitive book of optical illusions featuring works by Escher and Dali. With delightful trickery and visual puns, this book features: colour illustrations throughout; astonishing creations by masters of the art, such as Escher, Dali, and Archimbolo; amazing visual trickery; and an illuminating foreword by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author ...
What do we mean when we say "I"? Can thought arise out of matter? Can a self, a soul, a consciousness, an "I" arise out of mere matter? If it cannot, then how can you or I be here? I Am a Strange Loop argues that the key to understanding selves and consciousness is the "strange loop"--a special kind of abstract feedback loop inhabiting our brains ...
Hofstadter and Dennet have assembled an evocative collection of essays from a wide range of thinkers concerning the self and consciousness. With explanatory afterwords to each essay, this text opens up the concerns of the philosophy of mind to the general public.
First published in 1979, this is a genuine interdisciplinary work of nonfiction, with dozens of historical references and subtexts. Critics and reviewers have summed up its meaning in varying ways, yet consistently with praise. A mixture of art, philosophy, music, math, technology, and cognitive science, the book's title only reflects one aspect ...
First published in 1979, this is a genuine interdisciplinary work of nonfiction, with dozens of historical references and subtexts. Critics and reviewers have summed up its meaning in varying ways, yet consistently with praise. A mixture of art, philosophy, music, math, technology, and cognitive science, the book's title only reflects one aspect ...
Douglas Hofstadterauthor of the Pulitzer Prizewinner Gdel, Escher, Bach and a select group of translators, as well as three computer programs, translate a short poem by sixteenth-century French poet Clment Marot from its native tongue into English. In analyzing these translations, each distinct and delightful in its own right, translation becomes ...
Readers of earlier works by Douglas Hofstadter will find this book a natural extension of his style and his ideas about creativity and analogy; in addition, psychologists, philosophers, and artificial-intelligence researchers will find in this elaborate web of ingenious ideas a deep and challenging new view of mind.
Hosftadter and his colleagues at The Fluid Analogies Research Group have developed computer models that help describe and explain human discovery, creation and analogical thought. The key issue of perception is investigated through the exploration of playful anagrams, number puzzles, word play and fanciful alphabetical styles, and the result is a ...
This novel, the first from the mayor of Rome, chronicles two parallel stories. Giovanni Astengo, employed by the Italian State Archives, is driven to uncover the fate of his father, who disappeared in 1977 after the murder of his best friend and colleague. Returning to the former country house of his parents, he is compelled to dial the number of ...
From one of France's most famous novelists, this story of lost love set in 1960s Paris is richly translated, with an afterword by Douglas Hofstadter. Set in high-society Paris in the mid-1960s, "That Mad Ache" recounts the intense battle unleashed in the heart of Lucile, a sensitive but immature young woman, when she finds herself caught between ...
Doris Schattschneider's classic "M. C. Escher: Visions of Symmetry (1990) is the most penetrating study of Escher's work in existence, and the one most admired by mathematicians and scientists. It deals with one powerful obsession that preoccupied Escher: what he called the regular division of the plane
WHO INVENTED THE COMPUTER? examines the 1973 legal battle between physicists John Mauchly and John Atanasoff over who should control the patent to the computer. Burks pores through legal transcripts and personal accounts from the scientific community, arguing that the popular opinion of the matter--that Judge Larson erroneously declared Atanasoff ...
Alan Turing's fundamental contributions to computing led to the development of modern computing technology, and his work continues to inspire researchers in computing science and beyond. This book is the definitive collection of commemorative essays, and the distinguished contributors have expertise in such diverse fields as artificial ...
Douglas Hofstadters translation of Alexander Pushkins classic, Eugene Onegin offers a wonderful version that reflects this inventive authors fascination with beauty and logic, witcraft and narrative.. Sparked by reading Jim Falens beautiful English version of Eugene Onegin (published in 1992), Douglas Hofstadter presents a more liberal, ...
This is no small thing to investigate whether an identity-soul or consciousness' I '- can emerge from simple matter. From the soup of particles, a deeper level, is the human brain, ascend to a jungle of neurons and, further, to a network of abstractions we call "symbols," the more complex and momentous of which is the 'I', that strange loop in the ...
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