| Description |
xxi, 777 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Harvester studies in cognitive science ; 14 |
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Harvester studies in cognitive science ; 14
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| Contents |
GEB:A musico-logical offering -- The mu-puzzle -- Meaning and form in mathematics -- Figure and ground -- Consistency, completeness, and geometry -- Recursive structures and processes -- The location of meaning -- The propositional calculus -- Typographical number theory -- Mumon and Gödel -- EGB Levels of description and computer systems -- Brains and thoughts -- Minds and thoughts -- Bloop and floop and gloop -- On formally undecidable propositions of TNT and related systems -- Jumping out of the system -- Self-ref and self-rep -- Church, Turing, Tarski, and others -- Artificial intelligence: retrospects -- Artificial intelligence: prospects -- Strange loops, or tangled hierarchies |
| Summary |
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this book applies Godel's seminal contribution to modern mathematics to the study of the human mind and the development of artificial intelligence |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 746-756 |
| Subject |
Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750.
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Escher, M. C. (Maurits Cornelis), 1898-1972.
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Gödel, Kurt.
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Godel
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Artificial intelligence.
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Logic, Symbolic and mathematical.
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Metamathematics.
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Philosophy.
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Symmetry.
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| LC no. |
78019943 |
| ISBN |
0394745027 (Vintage Books : pbk.) |
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0465026850 |
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