![]() The thesis combines various textual and pictorial forms: short stories, equations, sheet music, dialogue from the works of Lewis Carroll, mind-bending graphics by Escher and Magritte, and diagrams of protein structures and ant colonies. Hofstadter explores human consciousness, how it arises from inanimate, physical material, and the parallels between the formal structures of the mind and the thought capacity of computers. 1945), then 35 years old and a first-time author, the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-fiction and the National Book Award for Science Hardcover in 1980. Inscribed copies of Gödel, Escher, Bach, the massively popular bible of artificial intelligence published in April 1979, are genuinely uncommon.Ī cult classic, Gödel, Escher, Bach earned American cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter (b. ![]() First edition, first printing, pre-publication copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper, "To Jessie, with best wishes from Doug Hofstadter March 23, 1979". ![]()
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