Gödel, Escher, Bach
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Douglas Hofstadter's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, *Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid*, is a profound exploration of the intricate connections between logic, art, and consciousness. Through a unique blend of dialogues, analogies, and rigorous exposition, the book delves into the nature of meaning, self-reference, and the limits of formal systems, famously illustrated by Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem. Hofstadter masterfully weaves together the works of logician Kurt Gödel, artist M.C. Escher, and composer Johann Sebastian Bach to illuminate fundamental questions about intelligence, artificial intelligence, and the very essence of what it means to be a thinking being. This seminal work invites readers on a captivating intellectual journey, revealing the 'strange loops' that underpin our understanding of the world and ourselves.
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paperback
Basic Books
Published Jan 1, 1999
777 pages
ISBN: 9780465026562
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First Published
1979
Language
eng
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