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The Mind's I Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul
With contributions from Jorge Luis Borges, Richard Dawkins, John Searle, and Robert Nozick, The Mind's I explores the meaning of self and consciousness through the perspectives of literature, artificial intelligence, psychology, and other disciplines. In selections that range from fiction to scientific speculations about thinking machines, artificial intelligence, and the nature of the brain, Hofstadter and Dennett present a variety of conflicting visions of the self and the soul as explored through the writings of some of the twentieth century's most renowned thinkers.
Health, Fitness & DietingPsychology & CounselingPersonalityPolitics & Social SciencesPhilosophyConsciousness & Thought
RELEASED1981
PUBLISHERPenguin Books
LENGTH501
LANGUAGEEN
Douglas Hofstadter is an American scholar of cognitive science, physics, and comparative literature whose research includes concepts such as the sense of self in relation to the external world, consciousness, analogy-making, artistic creation, literary translation, and discovery in mathematics and physics. His 1979 book *Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid* won both the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction and a National Book Award for Science. His 2007 book *I Am a Strange Loop* won the *Los Angeles Times* Book Prize for Science and Technology.—*Wikipedia* 2021-03-03
4.7
The Mind's I Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul
by Douglas R. Hofstadter, Daniel Clement Dennett
With contributions from Jorge Luis Borges, Richard Dawkins, John Searle, and Robert Nozick, The Mind's I explores the meaning of self and consciousness through the perspectives of literature, artificial intelligence, psychology, and other disciplines. In selections that range from fiction to scientific speculations about thinking machines, artificial intelligence, and the nature of the brain, Hofstadter and Dennett present a variety of conflicting visions of the self and the soul as explored through the writings of some of the twentieth century's most renowned thinkers.
Health, Fitness & DietingPsychology & CounselingPersonalityPolitics & Social SciencesPhilosophyConsciousness & Thought
RELEASED1981
PUBLISHERPenguin Books
LENGTH501
LANGUAGEEN
Douglas Hofstadter is an American scholar of cognitive science, physics, and comparative literature whose research includes concepts such as the sense of self in relation to the external world, consciousness, analogy-making, artistic creation, literary translation, and discovery in mathematics and physics. His 1979 book *Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid* won both the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction and a National Book Award for Science. His 2007 book *I Am a Strange Loop* won the *Los Angeles Times* Book Prize for Science and Technology.—*Wikipedia* 2021-03-03
