Gödel, Escher, Bach

An Eternal Golden Braid

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Beschreibung

<b>Winner of the Pulitzer Prize<br> <br> A metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll<br><br> “Every few decades an unknown author brings out a book of such depth, charity, range, wit, beauty, and originality that it is recognized at once as a major literary event. This is such a work.” —<i>Scientific American</i></b><br> <br><i>GEB </i>is a unique insight into the nature of “I,” self, soul, and consciousness, centered on a notion that its youthful author dubbed “strange loop,” inspired by the twisty self-referential construction invented by logician Kurt Gödel, whereby a sentence asserts its own unprovability. The book’s chapters alternate with Bach-like contrapuntal dialogues between whimsical characters (especially Achilles and the Tortoise), and each dialogue’s intricate structure exemplifies the notion being discussed in it, thus creating indirect self-reference (a fact unsuspected by the characters). The book, filled with analogies, wordplay, humor, and mind-twisting prints by M. C. Escher, has inspired generations of bright students to study cognitive science and the philosophy of mind.

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780465026562

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

232 x 169 x 47 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

Verlag / Hersteller

Hachette Book Group USA