Name: The Mind's i: Fantasies and Reflections on Self & Soul
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Author: Douglas R. Hofstadter
ISBN: 9780465030910

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The Mind's i: Fantasies and Reflections on Self & Soul

Type

Physical Book

Author

Douglas R. Hofstadter

Publisher

Basic Books

Year

2001

Language

English

Pages

512

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

15 x 23 cm

Weight

ISBN

0465030912

ISBN13

9780465030910

Synopsis "The Mind's i: Fantasies and Reflections on Self & Soul "

With contributions from Jorge Luis Borges, Richard Dawkins, John Searle, and Robert Nozick, The Mind's I explores the meaning of self and consciousness through the perspectives of literature, artificial intelligence, psychology, and other disciplines. In selections that range from fiction to scientific speculations about thinking machines, artificial intelligence, and the nature of the brain, Hofstadter and Dennett present a variety of conflicting visions of the self and the soul as explored through the writings of some of the twentieth century's most renowned thinkers.

Douglas R. Hofstadter

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Douglas R. Hofstadter was born in New York in 1945 and is the son of Robert Hofstadter, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1961. He studied mathematics at Stanford and physics at the University of Oregon. He was a professor of cognitive sciences at the University of Michigan until 1988 and, currently, at Indiana University, where he also directs the Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition. His work Gödel, Escher, Bach (1979) became a spectacular success in the United States shortly after its release, even before receiving the prestigious Pulitzer Prize in 1980 and the American Book Award that same year; readers and critics around the world welcomed the book with identical enthusiasm. Hofstadter has also published The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul (1981), in collaboration with philosopher Daniel C. Dennett, and Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern (1985), among other works, as well as an English translation of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin.

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