Who actually -finished- Godel, Escher, Bach? Way back, I saw a book called <u>Godel, Escher, Bach, An Eternal Golden Braid</u>, which went on to be very famous. In the late 80's I sat down and read it ...
The cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter is well known for his pioneering work on artificial intelligence, his brilliant writing about language and identity, and for his classic, Pulitzer ...
In 1979, a cult book by Douglas Hofstadter explored consciousness via a mathematical idea found in art and music. Now, in the AI revolution, that concept could solve a vital question This year is the ...
Ever since its publication in 1979, Douglas Hofstadter’s Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (GEB) has been a cult book like hardly any other. For my generation, the one that grew up in the ...
Some time ago, I reviewed a popular-science book for the New Yorker. I don't remember the science or the book, but I did take the occasion to bemoan the fact that there was no comparable book that ...
In today's computer age, the implications of the discovery in formal logic that Newman and Nagel articulated in 1958 are of even broader interest, says Andrew Hodges. New York University Press: 1958.