A Conversation with Hofstadter's Brain : Consciousness, Strange Loops, and All Kinds of Minds
A Conversation with Hofstadter's Brain : Consciousness, Strange Loops, and All Kinds of Minds
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Author(s): Robinson, Scott
ISBN No.: 9781708428198
Pages: 105
Year: 201912
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 8.27
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available (On Demand)

The Tortoise and Achilles, of Gödel Escher Bach fame, meet to discuss the ideas of their creator Douglas Hofstadter - specifically, his concept of "strange loops," fragments of shared consciousness that accumulate to form the "I" in each of us. The two carry out their animated dialog in the context of Borges' Library of Babel - the Library of Possible Books - positing the ultimate strange loop repository: the Community of All Possible Minds. Along the way, they encounter Searle's Chinese Room, Nagel's bats, and HAL 9000, propagating a stimulating exchange that raises as many new questions as it attempts to answer. A must for any fan of any of the above.


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