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Metamagical Themas
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Author : Douglas R Hofstadter
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2008-08-04
Metamagical Themas written by Douglas R Hofstadter and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-08-04 with Psychology categories.
Hofstadter's collection of quirky essays is unified by its primary concern: to examine the way people perceive and think.
Metamagical Themas
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Author : Douglas R. Hofstadter
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
Metamagical Themas written by Douglas R. Hofstadter and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Amusements categories.
These essays (mostly from Scientific American, but several previously unpublished) look at chaos and Chopin, grammar and genetics, racism and Rubik's cube, and countless other subjects. From all this, Hofstadter throws new light on his central theme: how people - and machines - think and feel.
Metamagical Themas
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Author : Douglas R. Hofstadter
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1936
Metamagical Themas written by Douglas R. Hofstadter and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1936 with categories.
Metamagical Themas
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Author : Douglas R. Hofstadter
language : en
Publisher: Basic Books
Release Date : 2008-08-04
Metamagical Themas written by Douglas R. Hofstadter and has been published by Basic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-08-04 with Psychology categories.
Hofstadter's collection of quirky essays is unified by its primary concern: to examine the way people perceive and think.
I Am A Strange Loop
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Author : Douglas R Hofstadter
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2007-08-01
I Am A Strange Loop written by Douglas R Hofstadter and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08-01 with Philosophy categories.
One of our greatest philosophers and scientists of the mind asks, where does the self come from -- and how our selves can exist in the minds of others. Can thought arise out of matter? Can self, soul, consciousness, "I" arise out of mere matter? If it cannot, then how can you or I be here? I Am a Strange Loop argues that the key to understanding selves and consciousness is the "strange loop"-a special kind of abstract feedback loop inhabiting our brains. The most central and complex symbol in your brain is the one called "I." The "I" is the nexus in our brain, one of many symbols seeming to have free will and to have gained the paradoxical ability to push particles around, rather than the reverse. How can a mysterious abstraction be real-or is our "I" merely a convenient fiction? Does an "I" exert genuine power over the particles in our brain, or is it helplessly pushed around by the laws of physics? These are the mysteries tackled in I Am a Strange Loop, Douglas Hofstadter's first book-length journey into philosophy since Gödel, Escher, Bach. Compulsively readable and endlessly thought-provoking, this is a moving and profound inquiry into the nature of mind.
Surfaces And Essences
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Author : Douglas R Hofstadter
language : en
Publisher: Basic Books
Release Date : 2013-04-23
Surfaces And Essences written by Douglas R Hofstadter and has been published by Basic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-23 with Philosophy categories.
Analogy is the core of all thinking. This is the simple but unorthodox premise that Pulitzer Prize -- winning author Douglas Hofstadter and French psychologist Emmanuel Sander defend in their new work. Hofstadter has been grappling with the mysteries of human thought for over thirty years. Now, with his trademark wit and special talent for making complex ideas vivid, he has partnered with Sander to put forth a highly novel perspective on cognition. We are constantly faced with a swirling and intermingling multitude of ill-defined situations. Our brain's job is to try to make sense of this unpredictable, swarming chaos of stimuli. How does it do so? The ceaseless hail of input triggers analogies galore, helping us to pinpoint the essence of what is going on. Often this means the spontaneous evocation of words, sometimes idioms, sometimes the triggering of nameless, long-buried memories. Why did two-year-old Camille proudly exclaim, "I undressed the banana!"? Why do people who hear a story often blurt out, "Exactly the same thing happened to me!" when it was a completely different event? How do we recognize an aggressive driver from a split-second glance in our rearview mirror? What in a friend's remark triggers the offhand reply, "That's just sour grapes"? What did Albert Einstein see that made him suspect that light consists of particles when a century of research had driven the final nail in the coffin of that long-dead idea? The answer to all these questions, of course, is analogy-making -- the meat and potatoes, the heart and soul, the fuel and fire, the gist and the crux, the lifeblood and the wellsprings of thought. Analogy-making, far from happening at rare intervals, occurs at all moments, defining thinking from top to toe, from the tiniest and most fleeting thoughts to the most creative scientific insights. Like Gö, Escher, Bach before it, Surfaces and Essences will profoundly enrich our understanding of our own minds. By plunging the reader into an extraordinary variety of colorful situations involving language, thought, and memory, by revealing bit by bit the constantly churning cognitive mechanisms normally completely hidden from view, and by discovering in them one central, invariant core -- the incessant, unconscious quest for strong analogical links to past experiences -- this book puts forth a radical and deeply surprising new vision of the act of thinking.
Complexity
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Author : John Henry Holland
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2014
Complexity written by John Henry Holland and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with History categories.
In this very short introduction, John Holland presents an introduction to the science of complexity. Using examples from biology and economics, he shows how complexity science models the behaviour of complex systems.
G Del Escher Bach
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Author : Douglas R. Hofstadter
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Group(CA)
Release Date : 2000
G Del Escher Bach written by Douglas R. Hofstadter and has been published by Penguin Group(CA) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Art and music categories.
'What is a self and how can a self come out of inanimate matter?' This is the riddle that drove Douglas Hofstadter to write this extraordinary book. In order to impart his original and personal view on the core mystery of human existence - our intangible sensation of 'I'-ness - Hofstadter defines the playful yet seemingly paradoxical notion of 'strange loop', and explicates this idea using analogies from many disciplines.
Fluid Concepts And Creative Analogies
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Author : Douglas R. Hofstadter
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Fluid Concepts And Creative Analogies written by Douglas R. Hofstadter and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Analogy categories.
Hosftadter and his colleagues at The Fluid Analogies Research Group have developed computer models that help describe and explain human discovery, creation and analogical thought. The key issue of perception is investigated through the exploration of playful anagrams, number puzzles, word play and fanciful alphabetical styles, and the result is a survey of cognitive processes. This text presents the results.
Artificial Intelligence
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Author : Melanie Mitchell
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2019-10-15
Artificial Intelligence written by Melanie Mitchell and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-15 with Computers categories.
'If you think you understand AI and all of the related issues, you don't. By the time you finish this exceptionally lucid and riveting book you will breathe more easily and wisely' - Michael Gazzaniga A leading computer scientist brings human sense to the AI bubble No recent scientific enterprise has been so alluring, terrifying and filled with extravagant promise and frustrating setbacks as artificial intelligence. Writing with clarity and passion, leading AI researcher Melanie Mitchell offers a captivating account of modern-day artificial intelligence. Flavoured with personal stories and a twist of humour, Artificial Intelligence illuminates the workings of machines that mimic human learning, perception, language, creativity and common sense. Weaving together advances in AI with cognitive science and philosophy, Mitchell probes the extent to which today's 'smart' machines can actually think or understand, and whether AI even requires such elusive human qualities at all. Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans provides readers with an accessible and clear-eyed view of the AI landscape, what the field has actually accomplished, how much further it has to go and what it means for all of our futures.