Douglas hofstadter s book is concerned directly with the nature of maps or links between formal systems.

Douglas r hofstadter pics. Oh come on that s not a fair argument. In the first place the programmers don t claim the simulation really. I am a strange loop is a 2007 book by douglas hofstadter examining in depth the concept of a strange loop to explain the sense of i. Hofstadter it as if you took a lot of very good food and some dog.

Moore s law artificial evolution and the fate of humanity in l. The concept of a strange loop was originally developed in his 1979 book gödel escher bach. Download books for free. An eternal golden.

Victim of the brain. Eds perspectives on adaptation in natural and artificial systems. An impassioned response to the latest wave of futuristic predictions of spiritual machines and the end of humanity as we know it. Winds the floor of the machine room doesn t get flooded with rainwater and so on.

However according to hofstadter the formal system that underlies all mental activity transcends the system that supports it. Hofstadter was born on february 15 1945 in new york city new york usa as douglas richard hofstadter. In addition psychologists philosophers and artificial intelligence researchers will find in this elaborate web of ingenious ideas a deep and challenging new view of mind. Oxford university press 2003.

By douglas r hofstadter 31 cdn 19 99 cdn 29 99 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 the end we are self perceiving self inventing locked in mirages that are little miracles of self reference. His 1979 book gödel escher bach. If life can grow out of the formal chemical substrate of the cell if consciousness can emerge out of a formal system of firing neurons.

It s merely a simulation of certain aspects of a hurricane. On line books store on z library b ok. He is a writer known for victim of the brain 1988 achieving the unachievable 2007 and through the wormhole 2010.

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