“douglas r hofstadter”

Hofstadter--who won a Pulitzer for his 1979 book, "Gdel, Escher, Bach"--blends a surprising array of disciplines and styles in his continuing rumination on the nature of consciousness.What do we mean when we say "I"? Can thought arise out of matter? Can a self, a soul, a consciousness, an "I" arise ... More

This groundbreaking Pulitzer Prize-winning book sets the standard for interdisciplinary writing, exploring the patterns and symbols in the thinking of mathematician Kurt Godel, artist M.C. Escher, and composer Johann Sebastian Bach.Douglas Hofstadter's book is concerned directly with the nature of "... More

Since 1977, Hofstadter, the author of Godel, Escher, Bach, and his students have been developing computer models of discovery, creation, and analogical thought. What has emerged is a sophisticated and unorthodox vision of the mind in which perception, at an abstract level, is the key: perception of ... More

Hofstadter's bestselling collection of brilliant and quirky essays has been reissued to coincide with the paperback release of Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies. "Reading Metamagical Themas is perhaps the closest thing imaginable to taking a voyage through a mind".--San Francisco Chronicle. 124 ... More

Artificial intelligence pioneer Douglas R. Hofstadter celebrates the infinite subtleties of human creativity through language and translation in this brilliant successor to his GODEL, ESCHER, BACH. French poet Clement Marot's tiny poem "A une Damoyselle malade", written some 400 years ago, is the un... More

This is no small thing to investigate whether an identity-soul or consciousness' I '- can emerge from simple matter. From the soup of particles, a deeper level, is the human brain, ascend to a jungle of neurons and, further, to a network of abstractions we call "symbols," the more complex and moment... More

Doris Schattschneider's classic "M. C. Escher: Visions of Symmetry (1990) is the most penetrating study of Escher's work in existence, and the one most admired by mathematicians and scientists. It deals with one powerful obsession that preoccupied Escher: what he called the regular division of the p... More

This novel, the first from the mayor of Rome, chronicles two parallel stories. Giovanni Astengo, employed by the Italian State Archives, is driven to uncover the fate of his father, who disappeared in 1977 after the murder of his best friend and colleague. Returning to the former country house of hi... More