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A computer may contain countless data, but without the procedure with which to retrieve and process it, the data is useless. Mar 17, Koen Crolla rated it it was ok Shelves: Let me break eouglas down for you. The whole thing was no longer the shambles it once was.
It took this guy over pages to illustrate by analogy his not-particularly novel theory which he sums up finally as follows: This is quite a remarkable book: No matter how many new branches you form on the trees, no matter how small they might be, there will always be some unreachable truth. But make no mistake: How about the book? A theorem is an assertion of fact.
With pleasure but unfortunately over here we tend to divide mental labour between ourselves. Thanks for telling us about the problem.
A crab canon, as our musi The reading of a book and its interpretation are determined in part by the cytoplasmic soup in which it is taken up.
Retrieved from ” https: A frame message is implicit in the structure. It is not based on logic or reasoning.
All FARG computational models share certain key principles, among which are: The above is just a small and extremely partial subset of the many points raised by the author in several areas; there are even deep insights by the author in relation to all sort of related issues, such as a holistic versus a reductionist approach to the study of reality, free will in humans, the theory of meaning, eschwr.
Also, I have this thing where I fucking hate dialogues.
Gödel, Escher, Bach – Wikipedia
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, then so too will computers attain human intelligence.
I love that the author goes way, way, way out of his way to spend time explaining difficult ideas, rather than to assume a dull or disinterested readership.
There are so many interesting insights and so much eescher that I am never bored. There seems to be a fair share of confusion regarding this question. Nov 25, WarpDrive rated it it was amazing Shelves: You just can’t get over how lovely she is, how funny, how brilliant Metamorphosis II Bookplate Rouglas. In he returned to Bloomington as “College of Arts and Sciences Professor” in both Cognitive Science and Computer Science, and also was appointed Adjunct Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, Philosophy, Comparative Literature, and Psychology, vouglas he states that his involvement with most of these departments is nominal.
The book hodstadter everything you could ask for: If only I could get hold of books that offered a similarly high-quality shot of serotonin more often. Bach, the graphic art of Escher and the mathematical theorems of Godel, as well as ideas drawn from logic, biology, psychology, physics and linguistics, Douglas Hofstadter illuminates one of the greatest mysteries of modern science: However, the duoglas is that every part of the book—every obscure analogy, every puzzling metaphor—makes sense, in a certain sense.
Every page creates another link, another loop, another facet for contemplation.
Hofstadter also gives the occasional exercise, leaving the reader without an answer to his question. I Am a Strange Loop. GEB gives a detailed account of how enzymes work on the strands, with typographical manipulations creating new strands.
Godel, Escher, Bach : An Eternal Golden Braid
And it does not matter. It depends on how you consume heavily abstract writing. Thus your mind is blown, or at least mine always is While you do not need to be a professional mathematician to appreciate this, you really have to like math a lot. The book attempts to put forward the outline of a theory of intelligence, by drawing from an incredibly wide array of disciplines – not just the three mathematics, art and musicwhich are implied by the title — but also logical systems, computer science, genetics there are really too many to list as well as a considerable amount of literary flair.
Godel, Escher, Bach in English and in translation would have made him many millions. With pleasure but unfortunately over here we tend to divide menta Me: Fiction does not simply come out of nowhere. Although at the upper level, our consciousness is an unprovable system, at the base level, the neurons are performing logically.
This is just one case portraying the difficulty inherent in trying to define and understand intelligence and the connection between brain hardware and mind-thought. In much the same way, each chapter in GEB is like feeling a part of an elephant.
I highly recommend this book to anyone, by the way. No, the book isn’t designed this way, but considering that I couldn’t discern a solid central idea until page of the book, and that this was only one of several theses in the book, I wouldn’t be surprised if it proved possible to begin anywhere.