Gödel, Escher, Bach. Ein Endloses Geflochtenes Band.

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Douglas R. Hofstadter: Gödel, Escher, Bach. Ein Endloses Geflochtenes Band. (Hardcover, German language, 2001, Klett-Cotta)

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German language

Published Aug. 1, 2001 by Klett-Cotta.

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978-3-608-94338-2
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177302169

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Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, also known as GEB, is a 1979 book by Douglas Hofstadter. By exploring common themes in the lives and works of logician Kurt Gödel, artist M. C. Escher, and composer Johann Sebastian Bach, the book expounds concepts fundamental to mathematics, symmetry, and intelligence. Through short stories, illustrations, and analysis, the book discusses how systems can acquire meaningful context despite being made of "meaningless" elements. It also discusses self-reference and formal rules, isomorphism, what it means to communicate, how knowledge can be represented and stored, the methods and limitations of symbolic representation, and even the fundamental notion of "meaning" itself. In response to confusion over the book's theme, Hofstadter emphasized that Gödel, Escher, Bach is not about the relationships of mathematics, art, and music—but rather about how cognition emerges from hidden neurological mechanisms. One point in the book presents an analogy about how individual …

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