Libros de Douglas R. Hofstadter

La Analogía

• 900 páginas
• Este libro propone una nueva y estimulante teoría acerca de los mecanismos del conocimiento humano. La tesis es aparentemente sencilla, pero sus implicaciones pueden considerarse verdaderamente revolucionarias: en el núcleo mismo de nuestro...

Gödel, Escher, Bach

• 912 páginas
• ¿Puede un sistema comprenderse a sí mismo ? Si esta pregunta se refiere a la mente humana, entonces nos encontramos ante una cuestión clave del pensamiento científico. Y de la filosofía. Y del arte. Investigar este miste...

Gödel, Escher, Bach - Ein Endloses Geflochtenes Band

• 844 páginas

Dev Scope High Ed

Hofstadter, D: Mind's I

• 512 páginas
• With contributions from Jorge Luis Borges, Richard Dawkins, John Searle, and Robert Nozick, The..

Gödel, Escher, Bach

• 824 páginas
• Douglas Hofstadter's book is concerned directly with the nature of "maps" or links between formal systems. However, according to Hofstadter, the formal system that underlies all mental activity transcends the system that supports it. If life...

I Am A Strange Loop

• 412 páginas
• Can thought arise out of matter? Can self, soul, consciousness, "I" arise out of mere matter? If it cannot, then how can you or I be here? I Am a Strange Loop argues that the key to understanding selves and consciousness is the "strange...

Nagel, E: Godel's Proof

• 156 páginas
• In 1931 Kurt Gödel published his fundamental paper, "On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems." This revolutionary paper challenged certain basic assumptions underlying much research in mathematics...

Le Ton Beau De Marot

• 832 páginas
• Lost in an art—the art of translation. Thus, in an elegant anagram (translation = lost in an art), Pulitzer Prize-winning author and pioneering cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter hints at what led him to pen a deep personal homage...