Douglas Hofstadter

At the Core of Thought (Book)

Douglas Hofstadter

ISBN:9780465018475

Release Date: 01 September 2012
Analogy is at the core of thinking. From this singular premise, Pulitzer-Prize winning author Doug Hofstadter and French psychologist Emmanuel Sander construct a broad argument that explains how analogies help us find order out of the chaos of the world. From the simplest forms (a single word...more details
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Le Ton Beau De Marot: Music of Language (Book)

Douglas Hofstadter

ISBN:9780747533498

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The Essence of Thought (CD)

Douglas Hofstadter

ISBN:9781615730926

Analogy is at the core of thinking.
From this singular premise, Pulitzer-Prize winning author Doug Hofstadter and French psychologist Emmanuel Sander construct a broad argument that explains how analogies help us find order out of the chaos of the world. From the simplest forms (a single word...more details
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Are Quanta Real?: A Galilean Dialogue (Book)

J M Jauch;Douglas R Hofstadter

ISBN:9780253205452

..". thought-provoking and delightful. I believe that anyone interested in nature's deepest secrets would find great stimulation in this charmingly written little gem of a book." -- Douglas Hofstadter

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Format:Paperback  Pages:132

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Fluid Concepts & Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought (Book)

Hofstadter Douglas

ISBN:9780713991550

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Fluid Concepts & Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought (Book)

Hofstadter Douglas

ISBN:9780140258356

Hosftadter and his colleagues at The Fluid Analogies Research Group have developed computer models that help describe and explain human discovery...more details
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Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies (Book)

Douglas R Hofstadter;Hofstadter

ISBN:9780465024759

Readers of earlier works by Douglas Hofstadter will find this book a natural extension of his style and his ideas about creativity and analogy; in addition...more details
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GODEL ESCHER BACH (Book)

Hofstadter Douglas

ISBN:9780140289206

'What is a self, and how can a self come out of inaminate matter?' This is the riddle that drove Hofstadter to write this extraordinary book. Linking together the music of J.S. Bach...more details
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Godel's Proof (Book)

Ernest Nagel;Douglas R Newman James RHofstadter

ISBN:9780814758168

In 1931 Kurt Godel published his fundamental paper, "On Formally Undecidable Propositions of "Principia Mathematica" and Related Systems." This revolutionary paper challenged certain basic assumptions underlying much research in mathematics and logic...more details
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Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Book)

Douglas R Hofstadter

ISBN:9780465026562

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 cell...more details
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I Am A Strange Loop (Book)

Hofstadter Douglas

ISBN:9780465030781

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...more details
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I am Strange (Book)

Hofstadter Douglas

ISBN:9780465030798

Can thought arise out of matter? Can self, soul, consciousness, "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...more details
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Le Ton Beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language (Book)

Douglas R Hofstadter

ISBN:9780465086450

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 Clement Marot.""Le ton beau de Marot"" literally means "The sweet tone of Marot...more details
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M.C. Escher: Visions of Symmetry (Book)

Doris Schattschneider;Douglas R Hofstadter

ISBN:9780810943087

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...more details
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Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern (Book)

Douglas R Hofstadter;Hofstadter

ISBN:9780465045662

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That Mad Ache (Book)

Douglas R Hofstadter

ISBN:9780465010981

"That Mad Ache," set in high-society Paris in the mid-1960's, recounts the emotional battle unleashed in the heart of Lucile, a sensitive but rootless young woman who finds herself caught between her carefree...more details
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The Discovery of Dawn (Book)

Walter Veltroni;Douglas R Hofstadter

ISBN:9780847831098

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...more details
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The Mind's I Fantasies and Reflections on Self & Soul (Book)

Douglas R Hofstadter;Daniel C Dennett

ISBN:9780465030910

With contributions from Jorge Luis Borges, Richard Dawkins, John Searle, and Robert Nozick, The Mind's I explores the meaning of self and consciousness through the perspectives of literature...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:512

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Who Invented the Computer?: The Legal Battle That Changed Computing History (Book)

Alice Rowe Burks;Douglas R Hofstadter

ISBN:9781591020349

With meticulous research, Alice Rowe Burks examines a famous trial and its aftermath, leaving no doubt about the actual originator of what has been called the greatest invention of the 20th century....more details
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