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Both are worth reading, if dense as all hell, and both gave me some really delightful epiphanies. If it sounds like this book is all over the map, then you are correct. Godel, Escher, Bach in English and in translation would have made him many millions. These electrodes emit pulses similar to those emitted by neurons. One dialogue in the book is written in the form of a crab canonin which every line before the midpoint corresponds to an identical line past the midpoint.
This is perhaps the criticism that’s most commonly leveled against the book: Not even its publishers or readers who just absolutely love it. You cannot bring something inside the fantasy out to the reality level higher.
In fact, though I would recommend starting at the beginning of the book, I suppose one might begin anywhere and read through and back again, a’la Finnegan’s Wake.
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Just think of the all the real numbers contained between 0 and 1, for instance: Douglws could not with a clear conscience recommend this book to everyone, because I’m simply not that cruel. He wasn’t an academic any more, he was a proper publisher with a strong reputation for intellectually high end output.

Thus far, I have attempted to summarize the main thematic elements of the book as succinctly as possible. I love math puns and groaners as much as the next nerd, but one can be too cute, too clever. 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, but he states that his involvement with most of these departments is nominal.
Extremely enjoyable and really well done. View all 14 comments.
Godel, Escher, Bach : An Eternal Golden Braid
Let me break it down for you. Even concepts such as omega-inconsistency are made easily understandable — a significant achievement. I found that my problems with the book weren’t with the hfstadter matter, which was fascinating and enjoyable, but with the author. Not merely as an intellectual exercise, but deep in my emotional breadbasket, if you will, I feel human in a way that I can’t explain when I think about the difficulty of trying to translate my hopes, fears, love, creativity, wordplay, happiness, sadness, and ambitions into machine language.
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If we are not able to interpret or sense the message, does the message have any less value? That only made me more disgusted with the book, since it turns out that the book is riddled with historical errors where Hofstadter just made doutlas up or ignored actual evidence in favor of making his points. Paperback20th Anniversary Editionpages. So why wasn’t this serious sentence scoffed at? The short story is this: A mathematical theorem which is about itself?
So, for my next visit to a desert island, give me sun, sand, water and GEB, and I’ll live happily ever after. Hofsttadter takeaway for me was pretty strange looptying back to the nature of decidability.
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
It is the information that tells you how to decode the frame message to get the inner message that is implicit in the frame message. Basically, he showed that any formal mathematical system is necessarily incomplete in specific ways. It is said to be self-evident. Jun 17, Matt rated it did not like it Shelves: The inner message is the transmitted message, content that is understood. You can’t just sort of like it.
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
This goes to the heart of the question as to whether the value of information is dependent on whether it is usable to the environment.
Thus your mind is blown, or at least mine always is Brian I think it’s fun. In this vein, it is interesting to read Hofstadter’s justification for including the Incompleteness Theorems in his book: Hofstadter makes some fascinating observations about emergent properties such as intelligence and diverts us into the extremely heavy mathematics of Godel via the self referencing systems that are Bach’s fugues and Escher’s ‘optical illusion’ style artwork.
Casti, Nature “Every few decades an unknown author brings out a book of such depth, clarity, range, wit, beauty and originality that it is recognized at once as a major literary event.
And I value that in a writer. I can only warmly invite the reader to take the time to enjoy this book – a GR friend of mine stated hofstadte this is one of the very few books that he did read twice, and I perfectly understand why. This book told me something about intelligence – the smartest thing bcah do is to avoid this book’s overly lengthy babblings of a self-important graduate student who is way too impressed with himself.
Indeed, it cannot be proven.
Linking together the music of J. Each chapter, he spent many pages questioning himself and the reader about connections between DNA, Godel’s Theorem, fuges, AI, and many other topics from a well-educated mind. I need to hear it explained in another way. However, the lower level isomorphism helps us to create the higher level isomorphisms.
For example, Kurt Godel was a mathematician who proved that in any self-consistent formulation of number theory, you could generate theorems that, while “true”, were not provable in within that formulation. Recursion is the process of building up from a block of structure.
