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    Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

    Douglas R. Hofstadter

    Godel, Escher, Bach is a Pulitzer Prize–winning treatise exploring patterns and symbols in the thinking of mathematician Kurt Godel, artist M. C. Escher and composer Johann Sebastian Bach. A groundbreaking…

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    I Am a Strange Loop

    Douglas R. Hofstadter

    One of our greatest philosophers and scientists of the mind asks, where does the self come from–and how our selves can exist in the minds of others

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    Surfaces and Essences

    Douglas R. Hofstadter,Emmanuel Sander

    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…

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    Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought

    Douglas R. Hofstadter

    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, psychologists, philosophers, and artificial-intelligence…

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    Le Ton Beau De Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language

    Douglas R. Hofstadter

    This text presents a translation of a short poem by 16th-century French poet Clement Marot.

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    Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern

    Douglas R. Hofstadter

    Hofstadters collection of quirky essays is unified by its primary concern: to examine the way people perceive and think.

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    The Mind’s I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul

    Daniel C. Dennett,Douglas R. Hofstadter

    From some of the 20th century’s greatest thinkers, this work contains essays on topics as diverse as artificial intelligence, evolution, science fiction, philosophy, reductionism, and consciousness.

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    Goedel’s Proof

    Ernest Nagel,James R. Newman

    Best-selling book that challenges basic assumptions of logic

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    Godel’s Proof

    Ernest Nagel,James R. Newman

    In 1931 Kurt Godel published his paper, On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems. This paper challenged certain basic assumptions underlying much research in mathematics and logic…

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