I Am a Strange Loop

Informationen zum Autor Douglas Hofstadter is College of Arts and Sciences Professor of Cognitive Science and Computer Science at Indiana University, Bloomington. His other books include the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid; Metamagical Themas; The Mind's I; Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies; Le Ton beau de Marot; and Surfaces and Essences, with Emmanuel Sander. He lives in Bloomington, Indiana. Klappentext Douglas Hofstadter's long-awaited return to the themes of Gödel, Escher, Bach- an original and controversial view of the nature of consciousness and identity. I AM A STRANGE LOOP argues that the key to understanding the level on which consciousness operates-the higher-order equivalent of the atom, so to speak-is the feedback loop. "(B)rilliant... the most gripping 400 pages I've read in years.... (I AM A STRANGE LOOP) zings with puns, anecdotes and analogies." -The Times, London Zusammenfassung 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

Product details

• Authors: Douglas R. Hofstadter
• Publisher: Basic Books Inc.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.07.2008
• EAN: 9780465030798
• ISBN: 978-0-465-03079-8
• No. of pages: 436
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Basic Books
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Philosophie, PHILOSOPHY / General, SCIENCE / General, Philosophie / Allgemeines, Einführung, Lexikon, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Englische Bücher / Geisteswissenschaften / Philosophie