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A wonderful exploration of fascinating ideas at the heart of cognitive science: meaning, reduction, recursion, and much more.
This book argues that the key to understanding selves and consciousness is the “strange loop” a special kind of abstract feedback loop inhabiting our brains.
Hofstadter's collection of quirky essays is unified by its primary concern: to examine the way people perceive and think.
This book explores the meaning of self and consciousness through the perspectives of literature, artificial intelligence, psychology, and other disciplines.
Now, with his wit and special talent for making complex ideas vivid, Hofstadter has partnered with Sander to put forth a highly novel perspective on cognition. This book will profoundly enrich our understanding of our own minds.