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(4.34) | 2 / 222 | 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 the heart of cognitive science: meaning, reduction, recursion, and much more.… (mais) |
| Adicionado recentemente por | hihik, AES1976, jammyy, DerBard, radzero, SvenjaT, bwjackson, BooksInLihuk, Deerhound, Pr3drag | | Bibliotecas Históricas | Terence Kemp McKenna, Iris Murdoch |
▾Recomendações do LibraryThing  ▾Recomendações dos membros  10 1Zaklog: Cryptonomicon strikes me as the kind of book that Hofstadter would write if he wrote fiction. Both books are complex, with discursive passages on mathematics and a positively weird sense of humor. If you enjoyed (rather than endured) the explanatory sections on cryptography and the charts of Waterhouse's love life (among other, rarely charted things) you should really like this book.… (mais) 60 Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth de Apostolos Doxiadis (tomduck, EerierIdyllMeme)EerierIdyllMeme: An obvious suggestion (surprised it's not here already). Both are creative and fictional riffing off of formal logic and incompleteness. 50 Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern de Douglas R. Hofstadter (JFDR)40 Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel de Rebecca Goldstein (michaeljohn)20 A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper de John Allen Paulos (heidialice)heidialice: GEB is a thousand times as intense, but if you enjoyed the parts about self-referentiality it's worth a skim. Conversely, if GEB is just too much, Paulos' concise introduction to the theme is very accessible. 00 Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension de Matt Parker (Lorem)Lorem: Things in 4D I consider a more accessible version of GEB in its breadth and how it does get to complex topics. If you enjoyed the more complicated parts of 4D, definitely look at GEB and if GEB was a little too much, 4D might remind you why math(s) are never boring… (mais) 00 The Gold Bug Variations de Richard Powers (hippietrail)33 A New Kind of Science de Stephen Wolfram (Usuário anônimo)01 Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency de Douglas Adams (EerierIdyllMeme)EerierIdyllMeme: A few similar themes (Bach, human cognition) come up in similar ways. 03 The Flanders Panel de Arturo Pérez-Reverte (P_S_Patrick)P_S_Patrick: Arturo Perez-Reverte has recieved inspiration for his excellent mystery thriller from Hofstadter's Godel Escher Bach, even without some of the chapter introduciton quotes, that much is clear. He uses the bewildering Escherian theme of worlds within a world, Godels incompleteness theorum is alluded to in the monologue of one character, and Bach is discussed in relevance to the mystery too, along with a few miscellaneous paradoxes which are also slipped in, in a similar spirit in which they permeate the more complex non-fictional work. Non-fiction readers who have enjoyed GEB should be amused by the Flanders panel, and I think they should enjoy it even if they do not often dip into fiction. It would be harder to recommend GEB to fans of the Flanders Panel, due to its sheer length, but if you were intrigued by the themes in the story then it should at least be worth finding GEB in a library and dipping into it.… (mais)
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