Cover of Gödel, Escher, Bach

Gödel, Escher, Bach

An Eternal Golden Braid

by Douglas R. Hofstadter

1979 777 pages eng ★ 4.2 (73 ratings)

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize A metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll 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 activi…

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