Douglas R. Hofstadter

,,Kánonok és fúgák, logika és igazság, geometria, rekurzió, szintaktikai szerkezetek, a jelentés természete, zen buddhizmus, paradoxonok, az agy és a tudat működése, redukcionizmus és holizmus, hangyabolyok, fogalmak és mentális reprezentációk, fordítás, számítógépek és...

Words of ThanksThis book was brewing in my mind over a period of probably nearly twenty yearsever since I was thirteen and thinking about how I thought in English and French. And even before that, there were clear signs of my main-line interest. I remember that at some early age, there was nothing...

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...