Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. Hofstadter

The Wall Street Journal referred to the book as 'fascinating', 'original', and 'thought-provoking'.

The 3 versions of the poem are in 'English French German Suite' at the end of the previous chapter. Note: In the book, this excerpt is from Part II: EGB, Chapter XII: Minds and Thoughts. New York: Basic Books, 1980 Vintage Books Edition, Sep 1980. Īs an exploration of the sense of 'I', Hofstadter explores his own life and those to whom he has been close. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. He demonstrates how the properties of self-referential systems, demonstrated most famously in Gödel's incompleteness theorems, can be used to describe the unique properties of minds. Hofstadter seeks to remedy this problem in I Am a Strange Loop by focusing on and expounding the central message of Gödel, Escher, Bach. What is a self, and how can a self come out of stuff that is as selfless as a stone or a puddle?' He states: 'GEB is a very personal attempt to say how it is that animate beings can come out of inanimate matter. In the preface to its 20th anniversary edition, Hofstadter laments that the book was perceived as a hodgepodge of neat things with no central theme. Nominated as finalists in General Nonfiction in 1980: The Madwoman in the Attic, by Sandra M.

Hofstadter (Basic Books) Share: Twitter Facebook Email. Hofstadter had previously expressed disappointment with how Gödel, Escher, Bach, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1980 for general nonfiction, was received. Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, by Douglas R. Douglas Hofstadter, I Am a Strange Loop, p.

Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. Hofstadter