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Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
$45.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Penguin Science Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'What is a self, and how can a self come out of inaminate matter?' This book examines this riddle. Linking together the music of J S Bach, the graphic art of Escher and the mathematical theorems of Godel, as well as ideas drawn from logic, biology, psychology, physics and linguistics, it reveals the mys ...Show more
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter
$39.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
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 activity transc ...Show more
I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas R. Hofstadter
$45.00 AUD
Category: Science
This is Douglas R Hofstadter's long-awaited return to the themes of Godel, Escher, Bach - an original and controversial view of the nature of consciousness and identity. Why do we say "I"? Can thought arise out of matter? By "thought" we mean not mere calculation, the manipulation of algorithms an ...Show more
I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter
$29.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Reading Level: good
Douglas Hofstadter's long-awaited return to the themes of Godel, Escher Bach--an original and controversial view of the nature of consciousness and identity.
Le Ton Beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language by Douglas R. Hofstadter
$39.95 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
Lost in an art--the art of translation. Thus, in an elegant anagram (translation = lost in an art), Pulitzer Prize-winning author and pioneering cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter hints at what led him to pen a deep personal homage to the witty sixteenth-century French poet Cl ment Marot."Le ton bea ...Show more
The Flame of Reason - Clear Thinking for the Twenty-First Century by Christer Sturmark; Douglas Hofstadter (Translator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
A passionate, highly accessible clarion call to a world dangerously threatened by irrational superstitions of all kinds.'Truly a book for our time' Steven Pinker 'In Sweden's public square, Christer Sturmark has done as much as anyone to uphold reason and humane critical thinking' Richard Dawkins 'As lu ...Show more
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