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Fluid concepts and creative analogies : computer models of the fundamental mechanisms of thought
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ISBN: 0465051545 Year: 1995 Publisher: New York : BasicBooks,

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Metamagical themas : Questing for the essence of mind and pattern
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ISBN: 0465045405 Year: 1985 Publisher: New York : BasicBooks,


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Ma thémagie : en quête de l'essence de l'esprit et du sens
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ISBN: 2729602348 9782729602345 Year: 1988 Publisher: Paris : InterEditions,

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Gödel, Escher, Bach: an eternal golden braid
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ISBN: 0465026850 Year: 1979 Publisher: New York Basic Books

I am a strange loop
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ISBN: 9780465030781 0465030785 9780465030798 Year: 2007 Publisher: New York : BasicBooks,

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What do we mean when we say "I"? Can thought arise out of matter? Can a self, a soul, a consciousness, an "I" arise out of mere matter? If it cannot, then how can you or I be here? I Am a Strange Loop argues that the key to understanding selves and consciousness is the "strange loop"--a special kind of abstract feedback loop inhabiting our brains. Deep down, a human brain is a chaotic seething soup of particles, on a higher level it is a jungle of neurons, and on a yet higher level it is a network of abstractions that we call "symbols." The most central and complex symbol in your brain or mine is the one we both call "I." The "I" is the nexus in our brain where the levels feed back into each other and flip causality upside down, with symbols seeming to have free will and to have gained the paradoxical ability to push particles around, rather than the reverse. For each human being, this "I" seems to be the realest thing in the world. But how can such a mysterious abstraction be real--or is our "I" merely a convenient fiction? Does an "I" exert genuine power over the particles in our brain, or is it helplessly pushed around by the all-powerful laws of physics? These are the mysteries tackled in I Am a Strange Loop, Douglas R. Hofstadter's first book-length journey into philosophy since Godel, Escher, Bach. Compulsively readable and endlessly thought-provoking, this is the book Hofstadter's many readers have long been waiting for.

Metamagical themas : questing for the essence of mind and pattern
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ISBN: 0140085343 Year: 1987 Publisher: London : Penguin,

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Gödel, Escher, Bach : an eternal golden braid
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ISBN: 0855277572 Year: 1979 Publisher: Hassocks Harvester press

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Gödel, Escher, Bach : an eternal golden braid
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ISBN: 0394745027 0140179976 9780394745022 Year: 1980 Publisher: New York [N.Y.]: Vintage

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Mathematical logic --- Philosophy of science --- Escher, Maurits Cornelis --- Gödel, Kurt --- Bach, Johann Sebastian --- Escher, Maurits Cornelis, --- Gödel, Kurt, --- Escher, M. C. --- Godel, Kurt --- Gkentel, Kourt --- גדל --- Metamathematics. --- Artificial intelligence --- Metamathematics --- Symmetry --- #WSCH:ETOS --- Aesthetics --- Proportion --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Mathematics --- AI (Artificial intelligence) --- Artificial thinking --- Electronic brains --- Intellectronics --- Intelligence, Artificial --- Intelligent machines --- Machine intelligence --- Thinking, Artificial --- Bionics --- Cognitive science --- Digital computer simulation --- Electronic data processing --- Logic machines --- Machine theory --- Self-organizing systems --- Simulation methods --- Fifth generation computers --- Neural computers --- Philosophy --- Bach, Johann Sebastian, --- Gödel, Kurt. --- Escher, Mauricio, --- Bach, Jean-Sébastien --- Artificial intelligence. --- Symmetry. --- Bakh, Iogann Sebastian, --- Bakh, Y. S., --- Bach, Jean Sébastien, --- Bach, G. S., --- Bach, Jan Sebastian, --- Bachas, J. S., --- Bach, J. S. --- Bahs, Johans Sebatjans, --- Pa-ha, Te, --- Bakh, Ĭ. S. --- Bakh, Ĭokhan Sebastian, --- Bach, Joh. Seb. --- Bakh, Yohan Sebasṭyan, --- Bach, Iohann Sebastian, --- Bahha, J. S., --- Bahha, Yohan Sebasutian, --- Bach, I. S., --- Bach, Juan S., --- Bach, John Sebastian, --- Bach, Giovanni Sebastiano, --- באך, יוהן סבסטיאן --- Bach, Johann Sebastian, - 1685-1750 --- Escher, Maurits Cornelis, - 1898-1972 --- Gödel, Kurt, - 1906-1978 --- Escher, Maurits Cornelis, - 1898-1971

Le ton beau de Marot : in praise of the music of language
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ISBN: 0465086438 9780465086436 Year: 1997 Publisher: New York Basic Books

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