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Gödel, Escher, Bach : an eternal golden braid

by Douglas R. Hofstadter

This Pulitzer Prize-winning study explores links between formal systems in mathematics, art, and music to investigate how consciousness emerges from complex patterns. It analyses the nature of intelligence and the potential for artificial minds through recursion.

Accession 9837 ISBN 9780465026562 Publisher Basic Books
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